Here it comes….

Rails 0.14.4 RC5 is out. You can get it now with Edge Rails or soon with RubyGems.

If you’re interested in staying really on top of this, you can set up an account at RubyForge.org and click the ‘monitor’ icon in the project summary page. You’ll get an email when new versions are available.

UPDATE: As you probably know by now, you can update with

  gem install rails --include-dependencies

If moving up from another 0.14.x, you should be done. Do not call ‘rails’ over your application to upgrade. One nice feature with the 0.14 series is that a lot of the common code (e.g. everything under /script) is moved out of your application’s directory. There will be less updating to do to your application.

If you’re upgrading from an earlier version, here’s the guidebook.

While on the subject of the new .rjs templates, Liquid is an optional templating system based on Django’s templates and implemented by Tobi of Typo fame. I haven’t tried them yet – this is a sort of ‘note to self’ to give them a whirl one of these days. .rhtml is great, but it’s nice to have options.

“Marcel Molina Jr. recently announced that RJS templates would not be included in the 1.0 release of Rails, but that they might include them as a plugin.

I thought that it was about time for me to learn the plugin system in Rails anyway, so I packaged up all of Sam Stephenson’s hard work on the RJS templates from changesets 3078 and 3084 and turned it into a plugin.”

Rails RJS Templates Plugin

Since it was announced that the new .rjs templates wouldn’t be shipping with Rails 1.0, Cody Fauser went ahead and packaged them up as a plugin. You can use the plugin with the rails stable trunk or the 0.14.3 gem.

.rjs templates are well worth looking into if you do any ajax in your views. Thanks Cody!