Luckymonkey

To co-incide with the release of Rails 1.2 Sitepoint have a new book out, to lead you through it. Which is nice of them. They have also released a couple of chapters for free. Which is even nicer, and might help explain some of the deprecated things between 1.1 and 1.2.

Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner’s Guide [Server Side Essentials]

Riding Rails: Rails 1.2

I’m doing a few things in Rails at the moment, and new stuff will increasingly be done in rails. One thing which got me was that one of the great things about rails (migrate) has been altered slightly in the newest version, although a quick Google reveals all :

* All the old rake tasks have been moved to namespaced task, old ones are deprected. Ex: rake db:migrate instead of rake migrate

From this list of deprecations in 1.2.