Question

I’ve been going through some good (seeming) resources for Rails tutorials, and will dutifully follow the steps until halfway through I realize a helper has been dropped or something else has changed. Aside from the 1.0->2.0 change (which I imagine was significant, given typical versioning), are there other updates that have fundamentally changed how rails works, and before which I shouldn’t try to “translate” older resources? Thanks!

(please don’t just say “read the changelog”. I don’t know how Rails works; it doesn’t mean much to me yet)

Answer 1

I wouldn’t say there have been any really big fundamental changes since Rails 2 where it was like, “OK, throw out the old tutorials.” There have been some useful features added that might not be in older 2.x tutorials (named_scope is the biggest thing that immediately springs to mind), but it’s just another useful tool you can learn, not something that makes everything you’ve learned before useless.