Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • RailsConf is more than half sold out and the fastest selling O'Reilly conference

    The registration form for RailsConf is still glowing hot after a weekend that ensured that we’re now more than half sold out for the conference! This makes RailsConf ‘07 the...

  • Joyent makes Rails app go to 4,000 req/sec

    Our friends at TextDrive/Joyent have been slugging away at their seriously impressive mega-cluster for quite some time now and it looks like it’s paying off. Just a few days ago,...

  • New Feature for Rails 2.0: Multiple Controller View Paths

    Thanks to John Long, Rails now supports multiple view paths for each controller. For 90% of the apps, this probably won’t make a huge difference. But, for those of you...

  • How to get more literal URLs and still use IDs

    Obie walks through the technique for getting more search engine-friendly URLs and still retain the ease of use with auto-incrementing ids. It’s the same technique we used on the new...

  • Capistrano 1.4.0

    Capistrano is a utility for executing commands in parallel on multiple machines, such as for automating the deployment of applications. Version 1.4.0 is now available. To install: gem install capistrano...