which version of rails should I use for a new project

Question

I have been working with rails 2.3.5. I am gonna start a new project on rails. Should i continue using the earlier version or should i hop on to rails > 3 ? If so which is the more stable version?

Answer 1

It is better to use rails 3.0.x version as these days lot of new plugins(like active_reload) are targeted only for 3.x version.

3.1.x have lot of cool features(like asset pipeline, saas integration, coffescript integration, etc), but its still a release candidate and I faced some issues while using it. I guess we have to wait for the stable 3.1.x release.

I have been using 3.0.7 for a while and found it to be very stable. 3.0.10 is recently released and you can easily upgrade to it from 3.0.7 any time you want in the future.

If you are stuck to 2.x version you will be missing cool features like mentioned here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/5-awesome-new-rails-3-features/