redemption in a blog

It’s another slow week (just 2 changes of note imho) after the release of the 1st Release Candidate (RC1) of Rails 2.1. Follow that link for installation instructions – though if you’re reading this blog post you probably don’t care! (because you’re, you know, “living on the edge”). Cheesiness aside, be sure to report any [...]

This week’s report covers changes from 29 April 2008 to 4th May 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
change_table for ActiveRecord migrations
Thanks to Jeff Dean, who also blogged about the new change_table feature in ActiveRecord migrations, you can now change a table with a block like so:
change_table :videos do |t|
t.add_timestamps
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This week’s report covers changes from 21 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 (the day the corresponding Rails Envy podcast was recorded).
Not much interesting to report this week – there were mostly a bunch of bugfixes and Ruby 1.8.7-compatibility commits.
Introduce ActiveResource::Base.timeout and rescuing from Timeout::Error in ActiveResource::Connection
These are 2 changes that I’d talked about earlier [...]