There are two things that i am especially looking forward to in Rails 2.3.
I use named_scope like all the time now since i figured out what they are and how useful they can be. I often find myself doing something like this:
named_scope :ordered, :order => 'surname ASC, first_name ASC'
Just so that i can append .ordered to any other named_scope and get my objects out in a sensible order. Well in Rails 2.3 we’re going to have a default_scope
default_scope :order => 'surname ASC, first_name ASC'
Marvellous! :D
The other thing i’m looking forward to is the new super-slick render for partials. No more
render :partial => 'articles/article', :locals => { :article => @article }
render :partial => 'articles/article', :collection => @articles
Those now become the splendidly simple
render @article render @articles
Thanks to Ryan’s Scraps for explaining to me how that’s going to work!
