So, Edge Rails is still chugging right along. There are new and interesting fixes, changes, and refactors going on all of the time. So, lets take a look at just a few that've gone in since the last post (it's been a while, I know, I'm sorry!).

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the newly added ActionController::Responder which summarizes your application behavior for a specified format in just one place. For example, the default html behavior is written as:

April 18, 2009 – April 24, 2009

Edge Rails has been undergoing major surgery for the past week, as the core team gets ready for a Rails 3.0 alpha release at RailsConf. We saw about 50 commits to the master branch in GitHub this week. Here’s a quick overview of the recent changes.

Rails 2.3.x Changes

Before digging into the changes on the master branch, there were a few things committed to the 2-3-stable branch. If you’re running on 2.3 edge, these are ready for you; they’re also ported to the master branch already.

As of a few minutes ago, the first big bunch of Rails 3 changes were merged back to Rails master branch in github. This represents a good deal of work by Yehuda Katz, Carl Lerche, and others. I’ll have more to say on the changes later on this week, but for now, just a quick caution: if you’re in the habit of using Edge Rails, you should likely switch to the 2-3-stable branch for the time being.