Rails 4.0 around the corner

Rails 4.0 around the corner(github.com)

23 points by evanlong 13 years ago | 13 comments

wynst 13 years ago |

formatted:

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

laundrysheet1 13 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?

bcardarella 13 years ago | |

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

melvinram 13 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.

wynst 13 years ago | |

Ruby 1.9.3+ justifies the major version bump

technojuicy 13 years ago | |

Part of it could be PATCH replacing PUT.

tferris 13 years ago |

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

keymone 13 years ago | |

yes, yes.

agotterer 13 years ago |

Have they announced a release date target?

peteforde 13 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".

dscrd 13 years ago |

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

chrismealy 13 years ago |

Any word on performance?

amalag 13 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.