4.1.0 beta1: Variants, Spring, mailer previews, JS CSRF, config/secrets.yml, Enums

#Christmas comes early for #devs! The beta release for #Rails 4.1.0 is full of goodies:

Hohoho, it's Xmas time, kids! We have a beta full of goodies for everyone who's been nice this year. Rails 4.1 is packed to the gills with more marvelous real-world feature extractions, bug fixes, and the tireless polish only a community full of Rails elves could bestow it with. While this is just a beta release, it's arguably a lot better tested and ready than most of our previous beta releases. The bulk of what's new are legit bug fixes and additional features. Less shifting of the tectonic plates of the architecture this time around. This should hopefully mean relatively smooth sailing for anyone on 4.0 who wish to upgrade. In fact, we're already running beta1 in production for Basecamp , so you know it's been taking a good beating. This helped us catch a couple of performance regressions, and we've verified that everything is still spiffy fast on Basecamp. This new rel...

Full article: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/18/Rails-4-1-beta1/...