Post by Peter Cooper on June 11th, 2008
What’s New In Rails 2.1: A Well Produced, Free E-Book

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Ruby on Rails 2.1: What's New? (PDF, 2MB) is a free e-book written by Carlos Brando (with help from Marcos Tapajos and Daniel Lopes). It was initially written in Brazilian Portuguese (find the original version here), but this version is an English translation by several community members.
As far as community written books goes, it's pretty good! It comes in at 124 pages, and while 30 of these are just the Rails 2.1 CHANGELOGs (formatted in a nice way, none the less), the rest definitely does a good job of presenting some of the new features of Rails 2.1 (such as named scopes, dirty objects, numerous ActiveRecord changes and time related functions) in a very easy to digest manner.

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June 13th, 2008 at 12:14 am
wow that pdf is truly useful, highly recommended!
June 14th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
WOW! Nice job! The brazilian ruby and rails comunities are really getting bigger and stronger!
June 17th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
iam lovin it