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InfoQ had an interesting interview with David H. Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and its biggest proponent. He revealed many improvements in Rails 2.0 and how to upgrade from previous version. Here are some points:

• Rails 2.0 is polished in a way that’s very hard to describe meaningfully in words, but very apparent when you use it with hundreds of tiny changes.
• Migrating from Rails 1.2.x to 2.0 wouldn’t be too painful. Rails 1.2.6 is packed with deprecation warnings that allow people to get ready for 2.0 in a controlled way. Once your application runs well, it should be a short jump to 2.0.
• Rails code base has grown to almost 94K lines of code from 54K that is trade-off for new features.
• RESTful application development is the biggest theme for Rails 2.0.
• About scalability, they’ve made some really nice improvements to the performance of Rails, though, so each individual server will be able to handle a bigger load (lots of caching optimizations in the code). And they’ve improved the usage of HTTP so the perceived speed of a Rails application is much better.

It’s great that the Rails community is moving forward and I’m quite exited to see the new features in Rails 2.0.

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