Rails 2.2: Quick Feature list

Rails 2.2 was just released, and ryan strieks again with a great post.

let’s take a peek at some of the major new features (as determined by yours truly – feel free to pipe up with features that I’ve missed).

Rails 2.2.2 requires rubygems v 1.3.1, so before you upgrade make sure to do a sudo gem update --system.

Rails 2.2 Features

• :except and :only Routing Options
• Better Conditional GET Support
• Connection Pools (Rails 2.2 is thread-safe!)
• Mailer Layouts
• Shallow Routes
• Simpler Conditional Get Support, And Even Better Conditional GET Support
• Standard Internationalization Framework
• Get Your Metaclass
• Easy Memoization
• Easy Join Table Conditions
• Custom Length Validation Tokenizer
• Collection Partial Variable Naming

i am personnalt still on 2.1, and i don't think i will upgrade at this moment, but some features look very-needed in fact.