Rails 3.0.3 out - Faster Active Record plus fixes

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/11/15/rails-3-0-3-faster-active-record-plus-plenty-of-fixes

by vijaydev • 16 years ago

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msy2• 16 years ago

Given the 20-odd hours 3.0.2 lasted I'm waiting a day or two before even regression testing against this. While I love the pace of development I do wish they were a little more thorough with the release testing at times.

wycats• 16 years ago

From here on out, every point release will come with an RC. Not doing that for 3.0.2 was a mistake that we won't repeat.

msy2• 16 years ago

I'm really, really glad to hear that! We'll try and uphold our end and give them a spin, report & patch.

lunaru• 16 years ago

You guys do an awesome job, so I don't want to sound like I'm not being appreciative, but I thought this should have been a takeaway from 2.3.7 -> 2.3.8 experience.

jz• 16 years ago

I saw Aaron Patterson's presentation at RubyConf this year, which I have to say was just as funny as informative. It was essentially all about squeezing every bit of performance out of ARel. He ended up rewriting a good portion of ARel as well. If anyone is interested, the ticket with benchmarking stats can be viewed here: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/5098-r...

percept• 16 years ago

Has anybody benchmarked AR performance versus Sequel or DataMapper?

I've noticed a dearth of Rails3 performance discussion in general (usually there's a ton of articles on any Rails-related topic).

shubber• 16 years ago

I for one would like to see a discussion of why the decision was made to build AReL in the first place, rather than adopt DataMapper. Now that's I've gotten a chance to dig into AReL and it's integration with Rails, I'm less impressed than when I first saw its announcement.

cies• 16 years ago

ok let me through some fuel on the fire of that discussion...

i think AR went Arel, because AR's syntax and internals sucked badly, yet admitting that by putting effort in DM would badly hurt the ego of one or more AR devs.

sidenote1: if it wasn't for the humble merb devs, rails3 would never be what it is today. these merb guys gave up a little of the name and fame of their brilliant project so the community would benefit from not being split. DHH abused that humbleness by not even mentioning them (the project nor the devs) in the announcement of rails3! that's just plain wrong...

sidenote2: DM is great stuff -- still waiting for the version that allows NoSQL backends as well though.

sidenote3: i'm ex-merb user, now rails3, yet never touchin' no AR.

Rails 3.0.3 out - Faster Active Record plus fixes

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