Rails 4.0 around the corner

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/806d023b4563f907f1b93278f19fe00e77c434c6

by evanlong • 14 years ago

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wynst2• 14 years ago

formatted:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/guides/source/4_0...

agotterer• 14 years ago

Have they announced a release date target?

laundrysheet1• 14 years ago

Can someone please clarify what justifies the 3.2 -> 4.0? I don't see a big change, isn't this more like a 3.2 -> 3.3?

technojuicy• 14 years ago

Part of it could be PATCH replacing PUT.

wynst2• 14 years ago

Ruby 1.9.3+ justifies the major version bump

melvinram• 14 years ago

From what it looks like to me, it's not so much about a drastic new feature set but rather about trimming down dramatically. You could argue that it really should be like 3.2 -> 3.3 similar to OSX Leopard -> OSX Snow Leopard. I think they gave it a full version upgrade because it WILL (not might) break a lot of apps. That's my interpretation. I might be wrong.

bcardarella• 14 years ago

Rails 4.0 drops support for Ruby 1.8.x which necessitates the major version bump.

chrismealy• 14 years ago

Any word on performance?

amalag• 14 years ago

Aaron Patterson (tenderlove) gave a presentation where he said he wanted to refactor rack to make it more simple. He said Rails 3 had a lot more depth in the stack and it was making it slower. (when i start up an old rails 2 app i can't believe how fast it is). I don't think that is in Rails 4 though. I guess that is a separate project.

Also deprecating vendor/plugins means Heroku will have to change the way they deploy. You can notice that by the deprecation messages when you start a heroku console.

peteforde• 14 years ago

Rails 4.0 might be out by the end of the year, but that's outside of my definition of "around the corner".

tferris• 14 years ago

Do you think Rails is still fun and are you enjoying coding in Rails?

keymone• 14 years ago

yes, yes.

dscrd• 14 years ago

Upgrading our rails-2.3/ruby-1.8 website any day now.

Rails 4.0 around the corner

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