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Ruby On Rails Upgrade In The Direction Of Ajax, Web Services
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03/28/2006, By AjaxWorld News Desk
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The trendy open source web application framework Ruby on Rails just got upgraded. Version 1.1 boasts over 500 improvements, contributed by more than 100 developers. According to the official release announcement, the new version is "a little smoother, a little rounder, and a little more joyful."
Another upgrade is adding new features to Active Record - the Rails' approach to reading data from a database. "Active Record has been blessed with bottomless eager loading, polymorphic associations, join models, to xml, calculations and database adapters for Sybase and OpenBase," the release said. In short, these improvements make it easier to operate with database data, which is the backbone of every web applications these days.
Ruby on Rails was first released in July 2004. The philosophy of Rails is striving for simplicity and development of high-quality applications with less lines of code. It is now a popular framework with a significant following.
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