# New Free Book: â€œRuby on Rails 2.1 - What â€™s newâ€

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038 "2008-06-10T10:07:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/1 "2008-06-10T10:07:28Z")

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Less than one week after the release of Rails 2.1, was launched in  
Brazil the first book describing all the new features of this release.

After the launch of the book in Portuguese, the Brazilian community  
united to translate the book into English.

Done! A gift from all Brazilian Railers to the international  
community.

To download:  
[http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/06/09/new-free-book-ruby-on-rails-21-whats-new/](http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/06/09/new-free-book-ruby-on-rails-21-whats-new/)

My site doesn’t have much access outside Brazil. I would like you help  
me to disseminate it.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/2 "2008-06-10T11:26:08Z")

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I tried the trick in environment.rb file to disable the timestamp name,  
it doesn’t work:

> config.active\_record.timestamped\_migrations = false  
> undefined method ‘timestamped\_migrations=’ for ActiveRecord:Base:Class

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/3 "2008-06-10T15:38:58Z")

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126 pages ! – Jean-FranÃ§ois.

---------- Forwarded message ----------  
From: Carlos Brando  
Date: 2008/6/10  
Subject: [Rails] New Free Book: “Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What’s new”  
To: “Ruby on Rails: Talk”

Less than one week after the release of Rails 2.1, was launched in  
Brazil the first book describing all the new features of this release.

After the launch of the book in Portuguese, the Brazilian community  
united to translate the book into English.

Done! A gift from all Brazilian Railers to the international  
community.

To download:  
[http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/06/09/new-free-book-ruby-on-rails-21-whats-new/](http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/06/09/new-free-book-ruby-on-rails-21-whats-new/)

My site doesn’t have much access outside Brazil. I would like you help  
me to disseminate it.

Thanks!

–  
[http://twitter.com/underflow\_](http://twitter.com/underflow_)

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/4 "2008-06-10T16:46:57Z")

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Jean-FranÃ§ois TrÃ¢n  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> To download:  
> [http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/06/09/new-free-book-ruby-on-rails-21-whats-new/](http://www.nomedojogo.com/2008/06/09/new-free-book-ruby-on-rails-21-whats-new/)
> 
> My site doesn’t have much access outside Brazil. I would like you help  
> me to disseminate it.
> 
> Thanks!

un mirroir sur le sol francais …

## [http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21\_en.pdf](http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21_en.pdf)

[http://fabien.jakimowicz.com](http://fabien.jakimowicz.com)

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/5 "2008-06-10T17:17:01Z")

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2008/6/10 Fabien J. :

> un mirroir sur le sol francais …
> 
> [http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21\_en.pdf](http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21_en.pdf)

Tu as demandé la permission à l’auteur ?

Son pdf ne vient avec aucune licence.

Quand Carlos Brando écrit ceci : “My site doesn’t have much access  
outside Brazil. I would like you help me to disseminate it.”

j’interprète ceci comme cela : “Hey mon site n’a pratiquement que des  
visiteurs brésiliens, je voudrais plus de visites venant de l’étranger.  
Aidez-moi à faire passer l’info, bloggez l’info, tweetez l’info.”

À aucun moment il ne dit avoir de problème de bande passante.

– Jean-François.

–  
[http://twitter.com/underflow\_](http://twitter.com/underflow_)

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/6 "2008-06-11T12:32:48Z")

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Bonjour,

Beau travail en effet. Et à première vue agréable à lire.  
Merci pour ce lien.

Côme

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/7 "2008-06-11T15:48:49Z")

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2008/6/10 Jean-FranÃ§ois TrÃ¢n [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> 2008/6/10 Fabien J. :
> 
> > un mirroir sur le sol francais …
> > 
> > [http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21\_en.pdf](http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21_en.pdf)
> 
> Tu as demandÃ© la permission Ã l’auteur ?

Je l’ai averti, il a mes coordonnÃ©es et peut me joindre si jamais il  
ne souhaites pas que ce fichier soit sauvegardÃ©. Par ailleurs, il est  
dÃ©jÃ en mirroir sur plusieurs autres sites.

> Ã€ aucun moment il ne dit avoir de problÃ¨me de bande passante.

A aucun moment je n’ai prÃ©tendu rÃ©pondre Ã un problÃ¨me de bande  
passante de son cÃ´tÃ©, c’est tout simplement plus rapide de rester en  
France que de faire du trafic sortant du continent. De plus, chez  
certains FAI les routes internationales sont particuliÃ¨rement  
mauvaises.

–  
[http://fabien.jakimowicz.com](http://fabien.jakimowicz.com)

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carlos\_Brando](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Carlos_Brando)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-free-book-a-oeruby-on-rails-2-1-what-a-s-newa/140038/8 "2008-06-11T15:52:20Z")

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2008/6/10 Jean-FranÃ§ois TrÃ¢n [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> 2008/6/10 Fabien J. :
> 
> > un mirroir sur le sol francais …
> > 
> > [http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21\_en.pdf](http://files.jakimowicz.com/carlosbrando-rubyonrails21_en.pdf)
> 
> Tu as demandÃ© la permission Ã l’auteur ?

Je l’ai averti, il a mes coordonnÃ©es et peut me joindre si jamais il  
ne souhaites pas que ce fichier soit sauvegardÃ©. Par ailleurs, il est  
dÃ©jÃ en mirroir sur plusieurs autres sites.

> Ã€ aucun moment il ne dit avoir de problÃ¨me de bande passante.

A aucun moment je n’ai prÃ©tendu rÃ©pondre Ã un problÃ¨me de bande  
passante de son cÃ´tÃ©, c’est tout simplement plus rapide de rester en  
France que de faire du trafic sortant du continent. De plus, chez  
certains FAI les routes internationales sont particuliÃ¨rement  
mauvaises.

–  
[http://fabien.jakimowicz.com](http://fabien.jakimowicz.com)
