The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Official Mailing List Move

    Don’t worry if you see some mailing list subscriptions in your inbox, we’re simply transferring everything to Google Groups. This takes the incredible load off the Ruby on Rails server...

  • Streamlined: Taking admins beyond scaffolding

    Justin Gehtland and Stuart Halloway has been moving along at a rapid pace on Streamlined since its unveiling at RailsConf in June. There’s now a public repository with the code...

  • Recent Rails job postings from the Job Board

    We’re going to start posting a summary of recent Rails job postings from the 37signals Job Board every few weeks. All of these positions are for Rails programmers, but be...

  • Reloading Revamped

    A few days ago I checked in a significant improvement to Rails’ dependencies and reloading code. In the past, changes to dependencies.rb have shed the blood of those courageous enough...

  • New dedicated Trac server on the way

    Our current web and mail server has been buckling under the load of the recent frenzy. Especially Trac and mailman is taking it to its knees. So we’re going to...

  • New security mailing list

    In light of the past days of fun and games, we’ve started a new mailing list focused entirely around security. This list will be much lower volume than the main...

  • Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure

    The cat is out of the bag, so here’s the full disclosure edition of the current security vulnerability. With Rails 1.1.0 through 1.1.5 (minus the short-lived 1.1.3), you can trigger...

  • Security update: Rails 1.0, 1.1.3 not affected

    Good news: Rails 1.0 and prior is not affected by the latest security breach we’ve experienced. Neither is Rails 1.1.3. We’re currently investigating further just how contaminated 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2,...

  • Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch (and more)

    We’re still hard at work on Rails 1.2, which features all the new dandy REST stuff and more, but a serious security concern has come to our attention that needed...

  • Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

    It’s finally official: Ruby on Rails will ship with the next version of OS X (see “Internet and Web”). Both server and client (on the developer DVD). We’ve been working...