Real Dimensions

Today was a longer day, being the first day of the Conference (yesterday was the Tutorials Day) we had the opening Keynote from David Heinemeier Hanson (DHH). He had some really interesting things to say about the future of Rails in 2.0 and some Milestones.

Milestones:

• Over One Million Downloads, with 700,000 in the last year.
• Hundreds of plugins made for Rails (conservative number)
• Over 1600 attendees this year with over half getting paid to develop with Rails.
• Commercial Grade IDE’s from some big players.
• A rash of new books.

Rails 2.0:

• It’s real and it’s coming soon. DHH actually said “It’s not a Unicorn”
• Using Highrise as an example, 24 controllers with 22 of them being restful showing that the new stuff works and works great.
• Shopify and Fluxiom are both using Active Resource.
• Action Web Service will no longer be part of Rails 2.0, but it will be available as a plugin. It will be replaced by Active Resource.
• Friends and Allies:

• Ajax
• REST
• OpenID

Breakpoints are back

New Debugger - ruby-debug

Much better http peformance

Cacheing for your js and css file, this looks really cool.

• <%= javascript_include_tag :all, :cache => true %>
• <%= stylesheet_include_tag :all, :cache => true %>

Wildcard asset hosts to allow for more open connections for your page assets.

Query Cache

config.initializer is much simpler now.

Sexy Migrations, this started as a plugin.

http authentication

Licensing assumes MIT,

• script/generate plugin defaults to MIT

Rails is getting crufted, so it’s cleaning time

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