Desert 0.5.2 focuses on speed improvements and bug bixes. Pivotal Tracker Stories: "Fix mailer templates -- very slow with Desert": ActionMailer::Base.view_paths are now cached. This speeds up ActionMailer tests/specs. "Plugin schema migrations should successfully convert from the 'old' scheme to the 'new' scheme": Pulled cauta/desert at master and fixed specs. "Add sweepers to Desert's load path": Pulled willcodeforfoo/desert at master and fixed specs. "Specs should handle Rails version incompatibilities" via pivotallabs.com If you're upgrading or installing desert 0.5.2, you'll need to update the manifest before you can use script/generate desert_plugin - errors out. In generators/desert_plugin/desert_plugin_generator.rb: This: m.template "routes.rb", "vendor/plugins/#{file_name}/config/routes.rb" Should be: m.template "desert_routes.rb", "vendor/plugins/#{file_name}/config/desert_routes.rb" It's already a bug logged in their tracker so this be a temporary workaround until the next... - Michael Air