The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Capistrano 1.4.1

    Here it is, another Capistrano release, and less than a month since the last one! Miracles truly never cease. Capistrano, for those embarrassingly late to the party, is a utility...

  • RailsConf '07 sold out

    All 1200 seats for RailsConf 2007 are now gone. See you all in three months in Portland! Oh, there’s also a waiting list, if more seats should open up due...

  • Down to the last 100-something RailsConf seats

    RailsConf has been racing towards a sell-out and is now almost there. We’re down to our last 100-something seats out of the 1200 being offered. So if you’re still waiting...

  • Writing Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax

    Andre Lewis is rolling out a duo of resources for those of you creating mashups and Google Maps-based applications. Andre’s book, Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: from...

  • Rails Application featured on Good Morning America

    Former AOL CEO Steve Case recently appeared on Good Morning America to talk about his new venture Revolution Health, a new health site built on Rails. Think next generation WebMD....

  • RailsConf sells close to 3/4s of the seats, RailsConf EU Request for Proposal open

    RailsConf has sold close to three quarters of the available seats for the May 17-20 show at an amazing rate. It’s only been a week since we opened for registrations....

  • Shiny new Subversion and Trac cluster

    You’ve all noticed the excruciating Rails svn updates and Trac molasses in the last couple of weeks. Following the release of Rails 1.2 we thoroughly overwhelmed our development server, no...

  • IntelliJ jumps on Ruby and Rails

    JetBrains’ IntelliJ has long been the gold standard for Java IDEs. Now the company is taking a shot at turning their suite into a good fit for Ruby and Rails...

  • In case you're having trouble installing gems...

    A significant number of Rails developers have reported problems installing gems with the updated RubyGems release. If you’re experiencing a problem that looks anything like this: $ gem update sqlite3-ruby...

  • Rails 1.2.2: SQLite3, gems, singular resources

    It’s time for another minor update to Rails 1.2. This was primarily prompted by a change in the API for SQLite between version 3.3.7 and 3.3.8+, which left the Rails...