I’ve finally decided to update my knowledge of Rails to the newer Rails 2.0.

All sorts of stuff has changed, and of course my book “Agile Web Development With Rails” isn’t updated yet.  Being cheap, I don’t feel like buying another book.  Here are the tutorials and blog posts I’ve run across.  Many of these are single purpose on something specific, but hopefully this helps you out.

General

• Akita On Rails has a 2 part series going over the new stuff in Rails 2, and how to use it. (part 1), (part 2)
• Railscasts - short, to the point screen casts going over various Rails features.  This has been going since Rails 1 days, but starting at episode 80, it’s all about Rails 2.

Specs

• Not easy to read, but RSpec examples for testing Models, Controllers, Views, and Helpers.

Fixtures

• Foxy Fixtures - easily create has_many and belongs_to type relationships with no cross reference work actually in the fixture.

That’s what I’ve found so far, I know there are a bunch more great resources and posts out there to find.  I’ll write follow-up articles as I find the juicy tidbits out there.

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