Jump-start on Rails 2.0: Rails2 PeepCode
Ruby on Rails 2.0 was released on Dec 6, 2007 and fortunately for me I had the luck of starting a brand new Rails project on Dec 9. A brand new slate on which to try out all the new Rails toys.
Invaluable in this has been Ryan Daigle’s Rails2 PDF, a well-written compendium of what’s new, what’s changed and examples thereof. It also contains the complete Rails changelog, which seemed silly to me at first glance but has since been surprisingly useful as a desktop, keyboard-side reference in its own right.
Admittedly all the information contained within can probably be found on the web and piece-meal if you manage to read all the major Rails blogs each day but for $9 having it summarized like this has made it well worth the price as a bridging document until the Rails 2.0 books start to appear.
