# Rails 1.0 RC4 (0.14.3): It's the final countdown! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-0-rc4-0-14-3-its-the-final-countdown/47509 "2005-11-12T12:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david.heinemeier)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-0-rc4-0-14-3-its-the-final-countdown/47509/1 "2005-11-12T12:49:14Z")
Comrades, we are so close to the goal that the relieve should be tastable. The mythical 1.0 release is now penned to be the very next release once we rattle out the heinous bugs from this one. So we need every man, woman, and child at work testing the living daylights out of this final release candidate. Upgrade your apps, start new ones, kick the tires, rev the engine, do it all! So what’s new? What’s in there to make it pay to upgrade today rather than at 1.0? Lots! In a regular universe, this would have counted as more than merely a 0.0.1 increment. We got a ton of stuff especially for Active Record and the Rails infrastructure. _The new commands_ - script/server: Will now use lighttpd/FCGI if both are available on the system. This makes for a considerably faster development experience than WEBrick, but is unfortunately a OS X/\*nix thing only. Windows users will continue to get a WEBrick-powered server launched. - script/plugin: Your gateway to the wonderful world of plugins. Helps you install, manage, and discover new plugins. See script/plugin –help for more. - script/about: Gives you the all the versions for Rails and associates. See the sample on [http://bumble.jamisbuck.org/6](http://bumble.jamisbuck.org/6) _Active Record: find\_or\_create\_by\_X, association collection extensions, migrations for all databases_ We’ve added a new dynamic finder that allows you to find or create a new record on the basis of attributes passed, such as saying Tag.find\_or\_create\_by\_name(“Summer”). It even works on associations, so page.tags.find\_or\_create\_by\_name(“Summer”) is kosher too. Extensions for association collections is a sexy new way of adding methods to the proxies that all access delegate through. Example: class Account \< ActiveRecord::Base has\_many :people do def find\_or\_create\_by\_name(name) first\_name, \*last\_name = name.split last\_name = last\_name.join " " ``` find_or_create_by_first_name_and_last_name(first_name, ``` last\_name) end end end person = Account.find(:first).people.find\_or\_create\_by\_name(“David Heinemeier H.”) person.first\_name # =\> “David” person.last\_name # =\> “Heinemeier H.” And finally we’ve really put the spit and polish on the database adapters by adding migration support to all the commercial ones. As well as giving especially the SQL Server one a good loving in general. _Action Pack: Better filter controls, fixed ActiveRecordStore, and redirect\_to :back_ Action Controller now has skip\_before\_filter and skip\_after\_filter to sidestep certain filters set in superclasses that doesn’t apply to the current controller. Such as specifying :authenticate in ApplicationController, but skiping it in the SignupController. The ActiveRecordStore no longer only saves when changes have occured, so you can again rely on updated\_at being incremented at each page view, and thus rely on it for garbage collection. Finally we now have an easy way of saying “go back to where you came from” with redirect\_to :back. _Upgrading from 0.14.x_ It has never been so easy to upgrade to the latest and greatest if you’re on 0.14.x series. You get almost all of it for free simply by installing the latest gems and the rest by running these two commands: rake update\_javascripts rake add\_new\_scripts I’ll let you figure out what those do. _Upgrading from 0.13.x (or earlier)_ Jeremy K. has put together a great guide to upgrading from an earlier version at [http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/read/book/19](http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/read/book/19) _What else is new?_ ## As usual, you get the full play-by-play story of the changes by examining the changelogs. Such wonderful bedtime reading. David Heinemeier H. [http://www.loudthinking.com](http://www.loudthinking.com) – Broadcasting Brain [http://www.basecamphq.com](http://www.basecamphq.com) – Online project management [http://www.backpackit.com](http://www.backpackit.com) – Personal information manager [http://www.rubyonrails.com](http://www.rubyonrails.com) – Web-application framework ---
**Author:** ![david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david.heinemeier)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-0-rc4-0-14-3-its-the-final-countdown/47509/2 "2005-11-12T12:49:25Z")
On 11/8/05, David Heinemeier H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > _What else is new?_ > > As usual, you get the full play-by-play story of the changes by > examining the changelogs. Such wonderful bedtime reading. Hello David, I read in the ActionPack changelog: “Added request as instance method to views, so you can do \<%= request.env[“HTTP\_REFERER”] %\>, just like you can already access response, session, and the likes [DHH]” Can you make the request object available for ActionMailer’s views too ? Thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david.heinemeier)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-0-rc4-0-14-3-its-the-final-countdown/47509/3 "2005-11-12T12:49:31Z")
Hi David, all, quick problem with the new version. I did an upgrade of an app and everything seems to be working alright, but running the ‘script/server’ command is still firing up WEBrick and not lighttp. Odd thing is I was playing around with it last night on a test app and it launched lighttp, but now it refuses to on upgraded and new apps. Any thoughts? -Nick ---
**Author:** ![david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/e95f7d/32.png) [@david.heinemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/david.heinemeier)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 12:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-1-0-rc4-0-14-3-its-the-final-countdown/47509/4 "2005-11-12T12:49:31Z")
With a default install of lighttpd, the binary is installed in /usr/local/sbin, which is typically not in your path. A quick test: type ‘lighttpd’ at your prompt. Not found? Then you’ll either need to add /usr/local/sbin to your path, move the lighttpd binary, or create a simlink to a bin directory in your path. That way rails can find it at startup time. Hope that helps. caleb On 11/9/05, Nick S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – caleb [http://www.ruejulesverne.com](http://www.ruejulesverne.com)