The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Power Flash and Flex from Rails

    Jon Shumate introduces WebORB: WebORB for Rails is server-side technology enabling connectivity between Flex and Flash Remoting clients and Ruby on Rails applications. WebORB for Rails can be installed as...

  • The Rails Edge

    I’ve been wracking my brain trying to come up with something to say about The Rails Edge that isn’t already obvious. The problem is that everyone already knows that Dave...

  • Unobtrusive Javascript Plugin

    Dan Webb and Luke Redpath have release the latest version of their Unobtrusive Javascript Plugin for Rails. It solves several of the main problems people run into when working with...

  • Filtered parameter logging

    Now that the hubbub about the recent security issues has died down, I think it’s worth pointing out a little jewel that was snuck into the 1.1.6 security release of...

  • Trac and SVN gets new powerful machine

    After an extended period of troublesome Trac times, we’ve finally addressed the problem once and for all. Courtesy of TextDrive, we now have a new mega-powerful super machine dedicated to...