Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • 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....