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There are an incredible amount of Ruby & Rails conferences coming up in the next 6 months.

Please give a warm welcome to José Valim and Carl Lerche as they both join the Rails core team. Both guys have been key contributors to the Rails 3 development and both have made it into the top 10 of all-time Rails contributors. It’s an honor to have them on the team!

Some of the biggest changes in Rails 3 involve how Rails expects plugins to behave.

Dependencies

If your plugin has dependencies, make it a gem and have your users install it using the Gemfile.

You thought we were never going to get to this day, didn’t you? Ye of little faith. Because here is the first real, public release of Rails 3.0 in the form of a beta package that we’ve toiled long and hard over.

It’s surely not perfect yet, but we were out of blockers on the list, so here we go.

RailsBridge has organized a Rails 3 Bugmash on January 16th and 17th. The idea is to try and upgrade your apps and favourite plugins/gems to work with Rails 3 and make the upgrade path as smooth as possible for everyone else by documenting the process and fixing the bugs you encounter. Rails core team and others will be around in #railsbridge to help out the participants during the bugmash.

(cross-posted from Yehuda’s Blog)

So people have been attempting to get a Rails app up and running recently. I also have some apps in development on Rails 3, so I’ve been experiencing some of the same problems many others have.

The other night, I worked with sferik to start porting merb-admin over to Rails.

Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be easily upgraded to with “gem update rails”. The most interesting bits can be summarized in three points.

Improved compatibility with Ruby 1.9

There were a few small bugs preventing full compatibility with Ruby 1.9.

Understand Ruby’s Load Path

When you call load or require a new file, Ruby searches through the files in its load path. This allows you to require files relative to the load path without specifying the files full system path.

The initial load path contains paths for Ruby’s standard library. There are three aliases that point to Rubys global load path array: $:, $-I, $LOAD_PATH.