Hi Joe,
After, what, 2 RC's I'm surprised at this crap.
Could you point me to the tickets you opened after trying your application on these two release candidates?
I removed 1.2 and reverted to 1.1.x and will maybe figure it out at a later date. What a big disappointment.
No one is forcing your hand to upgrade. There are Rails applications still happily chugging along on Rails 0.13 or earlier.
I probably will open some tickets.
I figured that all sorts of tests were in place to check if BC was broke when routing was rewritten.
Lots of tests are in place. You can see them all for yourself. They usually reside in the test/ directory of each framework. Do they cover every possible edge case? No. Will they ever? Probably not.
Or after two RCs almost all of the major issues would've been found out (which is one of the reasons I waited--for final).
Ah, so you're upset that others didn't do the work you couldn't be bothered to? The reason we have release candidates is exactly because the core team is now happy with the framework for their use and are inviting others to help uncover edge cases from different usage. The more people who choose to "wait for the final", the less likely that all edge cases are uncovered. But few have the audacity to opt-out of the process and bemoan its lack of results at the same time. That truly takes talent.
I'll probably take another crack at it when I'm less fuzzy-headed and pissy.
Hold that thought. Better yet, put it on a post-it next to your enter key. This might lead you to ponder how much fuzzy, pissy thinking you're willing to put into the public records as examples of your open source contributions. The hang-over tomorrow might be slightly less severe.