Rails 2.3 Makes Finders Fancier

Rails 2.3 was released two weeks ago and the list of additions and refinements is expansive. Some of the changes I’m enamored of include nested attributes and the complementary nested object forms, integration of Rails Metal, and official support of application templates.

• Nested attributes and nested object forms simplify all the code associated with a form that contains more than one model. Validation occurs en masse in the model; a form can nest models to any depth; and the controller requires no additional code to process nested objects.
• Rails Metal is aptly named since its intent is to speedily process a request against “bare metal”, or without the incumbent Rails overhead. Metal is ideal for AJAX and APIs, where you typically don’t need to fuss much with the request — just let the endpoint interpret the incoming URL and return some data.
• An application template…
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