From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T11:10:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8	celebrations

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:25 +0900, DHH wrote:
> Get out your party balloons and funny hats because we're there, baby.
> Yes, sire, Rails 1.2 is finally available in all it's glory. It took a
> little longer than we initially anticipated to get everything lined up
> (and even then we had a tiny snag that bumped us straight from 1.2.0 to
> 1.2.1 before this announcement even had time to be written).
> 
> So hopefully it's been worth the wait. Who am I kidding. Of course it's
> been worth the wait. We got the RESTful flavor with new encouragement
> for resource-oriented architectures. We're taking mime types, HTTP
> status codes, and multiple representations of the same resource
> serious. And of course there's the international pizzazz of
> multibyte-safe UTF-8 wrangling.
> 
> That's just some of the headliner features. On top of that, there's an
> absolutely staggering amount of polish being dished out. The CHANGELOG
> for Action Pack alone contains some two hundred entries. Active Record
> has another 170-something on top of that.
> 
> All possible due to the amazing work of our wonderful and glorious
> community. People from all over the world doing their bit, however big
> or small, to increase the diameter of your smile. That's love, people.
> 
> 
> See
> http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/1/19/rails-1-2-rest-admiration-http-lovefest-and-utf-8-celebrations
> for more.

Awesome.  Props to you and your crew for this superb framework.

And thanks to all the folks supplying RubyForge with gem mirrors.
RubyForge is averaging one gem download a second at the moment, and we'd
be flattened if not for the folks listed here:

http://rubyforge.org/credits/

Thanks,

Tom