Formtastic 1.1 Ships with Rails 3 (and 2) Compatibility

Published 8 September 10 by Justin French

I’m very pleased to announce that I finally pulled the lever a few minutes ago, pushing up Formtastic 1.1 to RubyGems.org, compatible with both Rails 2 and Rails 3.

My thanks go to every one who contributed patches and actively tested our work.

Special thanks to Morton Jonuschat and Gabriel Sobrinho for their hard work managing this entire process. Between them, they’ve made 113 commits (and signed off many more from the community), making them the 2nd and 5th highest contributors to the project in a just a few short months.

I was able to focus on the 1.0 release, while they quietly worked away in the rails3 branch. It was such a pleasure to be able to just use Formtastic on my Rails 3 projects, rather than have to build it.

There were no code changes between the 1.1.0.beta and today’s release (only documentation changes), so this will be a pain-free upgrade for those running the betas.

If you’re upgrading from 1.0 or earlier, there’s been over 140 significant changes to the code in order to support both Rails 2 and Rails 3, but these were internal changes only — there should be no changes to the API or functionality. Run your tests, check how things are working for yourself, of course.

We’ve had had two major forks in the code for a while (master for 1.0.x and master for 1.1.0), but this will soon change. There’s a 1.0-stable branch for any maintenance work we need to do, and rails3 will be merged into master in a few days.

We’ll be doing some housekeeping for a bit, then jumping into new features and some deprecations for a 1.2 release as soon as possible.