What's new in Ruby on Rails 3.1
In case you haven’t heard, Rails 3.1 is right around the corner. I’m very excited for the built-in asset packaging and rendering engines for Javascript and CSS templates. The patterns they are recommending will help keep my static assets more organized without hurting client-side performance. Ryan Bates (of Railscasts fame) has put together a list of all the changes coming in the next release of Rails. Along with the asset changes, Rails 3.1 sees built-in role support for ActiveRecord models to improve your app’s security, jQuery as the default Javascript framework and much more. If you’re interested in seeing it in action watch Ryan’s Rails 3.1 overview screencast. With this release, the Rails team has proven they want to stay ahead of the curve. My hope is that it will help us deliver more robust software faster.