# For Beginning... Rails 3.0 Beta or 2.3.5?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/for-beginning-rails-3-0-beta-or-2-3-5/183833>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 21, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/for-beginning-rails-3-0-beta-or-2-3-5/183833 "2010-02-21T14:16:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![narizona](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@narizona](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/narizona)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/for-beginning-rails-3-0-beta-or-2-3-5/183833/1 "2010-02-21T14:16:24Z")

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I just starting to learn rails and am wondering  
if I should start programing with rails 3.0 beta or go with 2.3.5??

Thanxs  
-Nathan

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**Author:** ![narizona](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@narizona](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/narizona)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/for-beginning-rails-3-0-beta-or-2-3-5/183833/2 "2010-02-21T15:25:00Z")

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On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Nathan Adil maxson  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote:

> I just starting to learn rails and am wondering  
> if I should start programing with rails 3.0 beta or go with 2.3.5??

You’re almost certainly best off sticking with 2.3.5. If you get  
comfortable  
there you’ll not find it hard switching to rails 3 and you won’t have to  
worry about figuring out whether plugins are rails3-compatible.

James.

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