Ruby on Rails 2.0.1 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish. They have even taken a fair bit of cruft out of Ruby on Rails to make the whole package more coherent and lean.

Some of the new Ruby on Rails features include:

• Action Pack: Resources
• Action Pack: Multiview
• Action Pack: Record identification
• Action Pack: HTTP Loving
• Action Pack: Security
• Action Pack: Exception handling
• Action Pack: Cookie store sessions
• Action Pack: New request profiler
• Action Pack: Miscellaneous
• Active Record: Performance
• Active Record: Sexy migrations
• Active Record: Foxy fixtures
• Active Record: XML in, JSON out
• Active Record: Shedding some weight
• Active Record: with_scope with a dash of syntactic vinegar
• ActionWebService out, ActiveResource in
• ActiveSupport
• Action Mailer
• Rails: The debugger is back
• Rails: Clean up your environment
• Rails: Easier plugin order
• And hundreds upon hundreds of other improvements

Learn more about all of the Ruby on Rails 2.0 features highlighted above by visiting the Ruby on Rails news post.