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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails 1.2 RC1: New in Action Pack

    With all respect to the reporter from the Edge, here are a few tasty bits from ActionPack in Rails 1.2 (CHANGELOG). (compiled by Geoffrey Grosenbach). <h1>Views</h1> <p>You can now access...

  • Rails 1.2 RC1: New in ActiveRecord

    Here are some of the smaller yet notable features in the Rails 1.2 release of ActiveRecord made since the 1.1 release. (compiled by Josh Susser). Finding Added simple hash conditions...

  • Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1

    It’s been almost eight months since the last major release of Rails introduced RJS, respond_to, eager loading, and much more. It’s about time we introduced the latest batch of big...

  • The Rails Way on premature extraction

    Koz and Jamis has posted their first article on The Rails Way covering premature extraction. It’s a great way to start off the show of Rails learnings. Since it’s so...

  • Interview with David from Canada on Rails

    Better late than never, the InfoQ team has finally released an interview done with yours truly back in April at Canada on Rails. It includes questions like “How long until...

  • Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce

    Christian Hellsten and Jarkko Laine’s new book has hit the shelves: Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce. Their pitch: Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first...

  • A Voter Guide in Rails

    In the United States, elections are coming up next week. Radical Designs, a Rails development shop in San Francisco, has put together a site (using Rails) to let voters build,...

  • RailsDay winners announced (finally)!

    RailsDay finally got around to announcing the winners. Congratulations to them all. Especially Amy Hoy and Bryan Wood, who with Freckle won the Best Overall. Also of interest is jaded...

  • Ruby on Rails Camp in San Jose on November 9th

    Ruby on Rails Camp is an event for up to 120 people who can make it out to the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose and are willing to...

  • Paris on Rails on November 17th

    Regional Rails conferences are popping up all over the place. On November 17th, Paris on Rails will go down. It looks like it’ll be a great show for all French...