Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
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...
September 28, 2006
rails-konferenz.de is a one-day German Rails conference taking place at the NH Hotel in Frankfurt am Main on November 3rd. They have sessions on localization, testing, backgroundrb, and more. If...
September 20, 2006
John Nunemaker wrote to tell me that the University of Notre Dame has picked up Ruby on Rails and is using it for their forum site. About the implementation, he...
September 18, 2006
After getting all inspired by Kathy Sierra’s keynote at the RailsConf last week, and reflecting on the requests I’ve received for a Capistrano-specific mailing list, I decided it was time...
September 11, 2006
After months and months of deliciously teasing screenshots, the real deal is now out for the world to see. The official Ruby language website has been redesigned. And what a...
September 9, 2006
RailsConf Europe is imminent. Come next Thursday and hundreds of Rails programmers will descend on London for two days of talks, tricks, and perhaps a pony show. Despite an initially...