Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
November 13, 2006
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...
November 1, 2006
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,...
October 20, 2006
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...
October 17, 2006
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...
October 17, 2006
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...
October 13, 2006
There are only 216 days until RailsConf 2007! The 2nd annual International Rails Conference will be in Portland, Oregon on May 17-20, 2007. Don’t worry, it’s going to be a...
October 10, 2006
Damien Merenne has created a swank plugin for page cache testing. Whether caching has happened or they’ve been expired. Quite useful for testing sweeper logic, which, like any caching techniques,...
October 10, 2006
Mike Naberezny has a brief tutorial on how to make your own custom rescue screens for development mode when using Rails Edge. This way you can tailor the look of...
October 2, 2006
Stefan Kaes from RailsExpress has recently released a Rails plugin that greatly reduces the time Rails spends for rendering ERb templates. He’s now looking for help to get the code...
September 30, 2006
David Pettifer has created a compact Capistrano cheat sheet in PDF format. It summarizes helper methods, pre-defined variables, standard tasks, capfile syntax, standard release directory structure, and more. So go...