The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Using SQLite3 with Rails

    If you are using SQLite3 with a Rails application, make sure you are using SQLite3 3.3.7 or earlier. Versions after 3.3.7 incompatibly changed the way in which default values are...

  • Processing Credit Cards

    Omninerd published an introduction to ActiveMerchant. AM is a credit card processing library extracted from Shopify in much the same way Rails was originally extracted from Basecamp. Processing Credit Cards...

  • Hackfest 2007 winners

    We’ve reviewed, committed, and scored the patch flood. Congratulations to our twenty RailsConf 2007 Hackfest winners. Truly, a crack team of Rails commandos. Over 24 days, we saw 263 participants...

  • Ajax on Rails

    Scott Raymond latest book, Ajax on Rails, has recently been published by O’Reilly. He also wrote What’s New in Prototype 1.5? on XML.com regarding the latest changes for Prototype 1.5....

  • Mongrel 1.0

    To coincide with Rails 1.2.1, Zed just made Mongrel 1.0.1 official. He also points out that he started working on Mongrel around January, making it around 1 year old too....

  • Rails Cookbook

    Rob Orsini released the new Rails Cookbook from O’Reilly, just in time for Rails 1.2. Just from looking at the table of contents, it looks like there’s a lot of...

  • Haml 1.0

    Since we’re all celebrating new releases, it seems only fair to point out that Haml, an alternative markup format to Rails’ RHTML templates, has reached the lofty version of 1.0....

  • Prototype 1.5: Now with a manual!

    Prototype 1.5 shipped together with Rails 1.2 today. But that’s not all that’s been happening at the JavaScript sugar mill. Today also marks the official unveiling of prototypejs.org. A brand...

  • Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations

    Get out your party balloons and funny hats because we’re there, baby. Yes, sire, Rails 1.2 is finally available in all it’s glory. It took a little longer than we...

  • Rails blogging contest

    Pat Eyler is running a Ruby blogging contest, sponsored by Apress, and the first month’s topic is Rails Revelations: How Rails made me a better programmmer. Read the requirements at...