The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Hackfest 2007 and CD Baby sprint

    Ah, Portland. The open-source motherland. Pacific springtime beauty. RailsConf ’07 nirvana.rb # => true and home of CD Baby, a little record store that digs Ruby and Rails. We’re gearing...

  • Capistrano 1.3.1

    I’ve been remiss in announcing recent Capistrano releases, so I’m making up for lost time now. Capistrano 1.3.1 is now available! Capistrano, for those of you that are late to...

  • DailyKos considers Ruby on Rails

    Earlier this week, Hunter, uber technocrat at DailyKos.com started talking about how they will build the next version of DailyKos. The discussion has been going for a day or two...

  • Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 2

    This is it. We’re a mere two shakes of a lamb’s tail from releasing the final version of Rails 1.2. But before we light the fireworks and pop the champagne,...

  • RailsBench available as gem

    Stefan Kaes’ RailsBench benchmarking suite is now available as a gem. This makes it even easier to get started benchmarking your application and find bottlenecks. Yay for ease of installation....

  • Using custom mime types

    So, you’ve started using Rails’ new mime type support with responds_to, but you were wondering how to add your own custom types? Luckily, Geoffrey Grosenbach (aka topfunky) is there to...

  • Rubyisms with a flavor of Active Support

    Err the Blog has a great Rails-flavored version of the Ruby Inside Advent Calendar. Instead of just focusing on vanilla Ruby, Chris gives you the lowdown on all those lovely...

  • Ruby on Rails with Oracle FAQ

    Oracle continues blow loving kisses at Rails. This time they’ve posted a new FAQ on how to get Rails and Oracle out on the first date. Initial installation and a...

  • A brief introduction to Active Resource

    Rick Olson is getting jiggy with Active Resource these days and decided to spread the love with a brief introduction to the newest member of the Rails framework family. He...

  • Working with Rails? Tell the world

    Working With Rails is an attempt to index all the developers around the world working with Rails. It offers a few ways to browse the index and while the authority...