Rails 3: Django with a funny syntax

[elfs]

From the announcements for Rails 3:

The upcoming version 3 of Ruby on Rails will feature a sexy new querying API from ActiveRecord. Here is an example:

User.order('users.id DESC').limit(20).includes(:items)

In other words, Rails is now Django.

Also:

• Each application now has it’s own name space, application is started with YourAppName.boot for

Comments

[cadetstar]

I thought the first was already possible, just with different syntax unless I'm missing something:

User.find(:all, :order => 'id DESC', :limit => 20, :include => :items)

Could be wrong, though. I don't do too much active loading of associations since I normally work with fairly lightweight databases.

The rest sounds interesting. When I do my next project I may have to move my development instance up to the most recent version to try it out.

-Michael