Rails 2.1 is not far off the horizon and we’ve been adding a ton of extra deliciously nice goodies in preparation of its release lately. As always, the good Ryan Daigle has been keeping a watchful eye on the changelog and has been documenting some of the new features. The latest stars are:

• Gem Dependencies
• Dirty tracking with partial updates
• has_finder in the form of named_scope
• Built-in timezone support
• Better caching infrastructure