Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations

Fantastic news today: Rails 1.2 has finally been released
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I’ve been using the REStful features of 1.2 for a while now so it’s great to see it finally released (as 1.2.1). For anyone who hasn’t used the latest version of (edge) Rails you might be in for a shock, there are some huge changes in this release, especially for routing. You may also notice warning messages about features soon to be deprecated with Rails 2.

As always, you get a hold of the latest and greatest through gems:

gem install rails --include-dependencies

…or if you prefer to freeze it straight up, you can:

rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-2-1

If you go with the gems, remember to change your version binding in config/environment.rb. Otherwise, you’ll still be tied to whatever old version you were using before.