[Rails-devel] Update on Rails 2.0

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Sorry for the long delay after my last input. Unfortunately private 
issues not always allow to focus on those things that we do in a spare 
time. And that has been true for myself in the past few months.

But due to some fortunate circumstances I was able to spend some time 
and thoughts on a topic, which was still missing in Rails: This was the
full enforcement of tile laying rules. Some time ago I have started some 
programming to close that, however I had not fully analyzed all issues 
involved. I am pretty confident that I did better this time and there is 
a branch "route" committed to the rails repo. It is based on Rails2.0 
and still needs to be merged with that the head of Rails2.0 before it is 
available for testing. However all required functionality for tile 
laying is already in. And yes it does support all three common rules 
(permissive, semi-restrictive and restrictive). The other thing which is 
still in progress is the enforcement of the allowed token lays (thus 
checking if there is a valid route). However this will take much less 
effort compared to the tile laying rules.

You will understand that I am pretty reluctant to give any estimate when 
it will be available for testing and release, but I hope it will be 
soon, whenever soon will be. ;-)