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961 votes
improve performance started
Rails should be faster and leaner, Rails must have a central page on the rubyonrails.org website dedciated to deployement, scalability and maintenance of rails applications, Rails should have tools to benchmark code and see what sections of the application should be improved to reduce request pr... more
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579 votes
slices/engines planned
We are planing on making each app mountable in Rails 3.0 What that means is that slices/engines can be upgraded to normal standalone apps and just be mounted in the router.
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546 votes
Api for creating admin interface easily (like django)
I hate creating dozens of CRUDS for admin areas for some of applications. In many applications it can be done in the frontend, but there are situations when you just can't do that.
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500 votes
have a public and plugin API started
The public and plugin API should be defined and tested.
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468 votes
have an open source book available in multiple languages planned
It would be great to have a copyleft Rails 3.0 book explaining the various concepts of the framework. Instead of waiting that the book is finished to start the translation work, it could be done in parallel by the community.
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422 votes
extract validation from ActiveRecord
Sometimes I have forms with no obvious AR counter-part that I'd like to validate using AR's excellent validation module. It can be done but not without some hacking. It would be nice to be able to mix in validation support to any class.
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371 votes
have less overly clever code in the core started
overused of metaprogramming and overly clever code in general in Rails is annoying: it is very hard to read
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321 votes
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303 votes
Stop using plugins and just write gems
Plugins are really no different than gems. Why have both systems?
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296 votes
Make ActionMailer consistent with regular controllers started
ActionMailer is currently decoupled from ActionController, so changes that have been made to ActionController since the early days of Rails have to be hacked onto AM in inconsistent ways.
Let's abstract a common superclass or mixin and use it in both ActionController and ActionMailer. This will... more
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275 votes
Have a unitifed messaging interface for mail, jabber, etc
How mail is really different from say XMPP notifications? Or AMQP, for non-human? Rails needs a unified messaging interface like merb-messenger.
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252 votes
Make using ActiveResource as easy as ActiveRecord
Currently, ActiveResource (ARes) is similar to ActiveRecord, but it doesn't have the same polish or ease of integration. For example, it is not possible to declare validations on an ActiveResource class or for ActiveResource objects to be part of an association.
Let's give ARes some love!
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231 votes
Support for dynamic subdomains
I want an easy way to achieve the sort of dynamic subdomains you see on blogspot and even basecamp. I know there are ways to do it via plugins and such, but I'd like it to be significantly easier than it is now.
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225 votes
better support for non-relational databases started
Rails ActiveRecord make easy to work with a relational SQL based database but there's a few support for the non-relational ones, like a document-oriented database. In many cases the non-relationals databases are a better choice.
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189 votes
Unbind the framework from Test::Unit and Prototype started
Nowadays, more and more people (like me) are using alternative testing solutions like BDD, or alternative Javascript/Ajax approaches like jQuery. Rails is bound to Test::Unit and Prototype right now, and this should be an open decission by the programmer, not by the framework itself... what do yo... more
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178 votes
Port the Merb parts to Rails
As part of the merge of Merb and Rails, it is very natural that parts will be ported also. It is very needed in some applications (including mine). Makes the app much more modular. I use now cells as a compromise (I use it for my widgets architecture), but it must be in rails core.
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128 votes
have a centralized place to find Rails related resources
Finding information about Rails can be pretty tedious. Having a centralized place listing blogs, podcasts, screencasts would be very useful.
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125 votes
Use DataObjects behind ActiveRecord
DataObjects provides a clean, ruby-like API into postgres, sqlite3 and mysql. Using it behind AR would greatly simplify the AR Adapter code.
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125 votes
add prepared statement support to ActiveRecord
In cases where bulk update type operations and/or repetitive queries are required, allowing for SQL statements to be prepared and then have variables bound to them can improve performance significantly.
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101 votes
try to merge all the rails-doc apps under review
There are now a lot of web-apps concerned with showing/improving the Rails documentation. It would be great if the community could focus on one of these. This app should then become the official api-resource for Rails and replace api.rubyonrails.com
