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

  • Crazy Egg is crazy cool and on Rails

    Crazy Egg lets you find out which links are popular on your page and presents the information in easy-to-understand heat maps. It’s incredibly well designed and a fantastic idea. At...

  • Sun hires the JRuby team

    Tim Bray has announced that Sun Microsystems has hired Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, the developers behind JRuby. Tim’s announcement has a FAQ that probably answers many of the questions...

  • Adobe announces Rails SDK for Flex

    Adobe’s Mike Potter brings the cherry news that an officially-backed Rails SDK for Flex and the rest of the company’s RIA suite is now available. Derek Wischusen from Flex on...

  • Get the full scoop on sessions

    Chris Wanstrath has a very nice detailed article on how to control and use sessions. Lean how to turn them on and off and which stores are good for what....

  • LiteSpeed Web Server 2.2 Released

    LiteSpeed Web Server is a commercial product that offers a free version for private and commercial use. With release 2.2, LiteSpeed Technologies has embraced the Rails community and provided built-in...

  • Shopify didn't get memo, goes international

    Obviously someone forgot to tell Tobi and crew that its impossible to do internationalization with Rails. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so foolish as to try. And now look what...

  • Learn Rails in college

  • New Mephisto Release

    The latest version of Mephisto, the blog that powers Riding Rails, has been released. Justin Palmer has the nitty gritty details at the Mephisto Blog. Our focus for this release...

  • Capistrano 1.1.9 (beta)

    A new release of Capistrano is nearly upon us! Before I unleash it upon the world, though, I’d like to have a few brave souls put it through its paces,...

  • Things you shouldn't do in Rails

    Kevin Clark was written a nice piece on things you shouldn’t be doing in Rails. It starts with a reminder about not using various deprecated pieces of the API, and...