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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.

  • UC Berkeley teaches Ruby on Rails

    UC Berkeley is teaching Ruby on Rails in its CS198 Rad Labs class. The class is being taught by Dave Patterson, the creator of RISC, SPARC, RAID, and more. Quite...

  • Designing scalable architectures

    Jason Hoffman from Joyent had a great tutorial at RailsConf Europe on Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up. It defines the key terms and measurements of scaling and...

  • Summary of security articles and plugins

    The QuarkRuby blog has created a great Ruby on Rails Security Guide that gives you a wealth of links to articles and plugins dealing with security in Rails applications. Everything...

  • Rails tool space is heating up

    There’s a lot of action going on in the Rails IDE space these days. Besides Aptana RadRails, which has been around for a long time, Sun’s got impressive Rails support...

  • RailsConf EU '07 is over

    The party in Berlin came to an end all too soon. I had a blast there and so did everyone else it seemed. Such a fantastic atmosphere and group of...

  • How to get a patch into Rails

    For a while, the patch queue was getting badly out of hand. The flood of new entries was simply too great to be reasonably managed by a small group of...

  • Rails wiki is back in business

    After a short period of downtime following a massive spam attack, the Rails wiki is now back in business.

  • RailsConf Europe sells out!

    RailsConf Europe is coming up fast and we’re happy to report that all the seats are now gone. We’ll have one packed show to put on. I can’t wait to...

  • Rails Envy strikes .NET and CakePHP

    The fantastic team at Rails Envy is back with their Apple-style commercials comparing Ruby on Rails to a variety of competing environments. This time they have a one-two punch first...

  • Noobkit

    Looking for a good way to browse the Rails API documentation? Alex Gorbatchev has recently created Noobkit, a documentation browser for Rails, Ruby core, and over 20 other useful libraries....