rails-2.1 episodes

Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 was just released! In this episode I will show you how to install it into your Rails project.

In the past, time zones have been very difficult to work with, but no longer! Rails 2.1 brings with it great time zone support as you can see in this episode.

Migrations now have a timestamp as their version number in Rails 2.1. In this episode I will explain this change as well as show you some other cool additions.

The named_scope method in Rails 2.1 makes performing finds on models very elegant and convenient. See how in this episode.

Rails 2.1 keeps track of the changes you make to a model's attributes. It also allows you to see what the previous value was. But watch out for the gotcha! See this episode for details.