Ruby on Rails moves to 1.1

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is another of those hot development topics right now.  I've used a few Ruby based applications and have been generally impressed.  The main benefit of RoR is the ease of deploying AJAX (COMET?) apps.

The Web Services Journal and Internet news cover this new release of Ruby.

From the Web Services Journal, here are the what's new in RoR1.1:

What's New In Rails: (complete list here):

• RJS - Write your Ajax application's Javascript in Ruby
• ActiveRecord++Rails' ActiveRecord is a powerful, automatic Object/Relational Mapping tool.  It gets a major steroid boost in Rails 1.1.
• API Support - Adding an API for your Web 2.0 software is now even easier
• New Integration Tests - Rails understands testing and adds even more automatic test support
• Backwards Compatibility - Even with 500 new changes, old Rails apps will almost universally run in Rails 1.1

Like my previous post about COMET, these new development platforms are pushing applications to a new level of development/deployment speed and user interactivity.  Exciting times!

Tags: Ruby on Rails, Ruby on Rails 1.1, RoR, RoR1.1