Rails 2.1
Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition has been updated to Rails 2.1. The biggest visible change is the UTC-based migrations. It is amazing how fast beta readers pick up on details such as these.
Current Status
| Chaper(s) | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | updated to Rails 2.1 | only minor changes were required. |
| 2 | updated to Rails 2.1 | add_to_cart no longer a particularly good first example. |
| 3 | updated to Rails 2.1 | This chapter may need revisiting and may even be removed before publication. References to non-prepackaged solutions have been removed for now. Instructions for databases other than SQLite3 have not been recently reverified, but are believed to still work. |
| 4-5 | updated to Rails 2.1 | only minor changes were required. |
| 6-11 | first pass complete | First pass is to simply get the code working at all on Rails 2.1 and edge. Many images are still from the second edition. Subsequent passes will focus on highlighting and exploiting new Rails features and best practices. |
| 12 | incomplete | Doesn’t work with Rails 2.1 just yet. |
| 13 | untouched | Ideally will fold back into the main narrative. |
| 14-15 | updated to Rails 2.1 | only minor changes were required. |
| 16 | updated to Rails 2.1 | updated to support new migration syntax, new UTC based version numbering scheme, and SQLite3. |
| 14-19 | updated to Rails 2.1 | only minor changes were required. |
| 20 | updated to Rails 2.1 | increased emphasis on Restful routing. |
| 21-24 | untouched | Not yet reviewed. |
| 25 | untouched | May be dropped. |
| 26-27 | untouched | Not yet reviewed. |
| A-D | untouched | Not yet reviewed. |
Thanks - this is super helpful!
Looks like a lot of work still to be done - looks like you’ll be having a busy summer :-D
Posted by tyler Morrison at
Hi - It would be helpful if one could tell how far along in the updating process you were before one decided to purchase the PDF. That is a change that would need to happen on the <[link]> website. As it is, I can’t decide if it’s worth buying now and spending an extra $24 for because I can’t tell from the forum posts how far you’ve gotten in the fixing work to make it work with 2.1. It' clear that on may 23 you had completed through ch 10, roughly, and that you said you’d have chapter 11 done in another week.
so where is it now?
Posted by tyler Morrison at