Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
August 11, 2006
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...
August 10, 2006
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...
August 10, 2006
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...
August 10, 2006
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...
August 10, 2006
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,...
August 9, 2006
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...
August 7, 2006
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...
August 4, 2006
One of the biggest complaints with Rails is the lack of good documentation. Unfortunately, Rails is still very young, and the talented developers are either extremely busy with their jobs,...
August 3, 2006
Registration for RubyConf 2006 is closed. It took only about four hours to fill 200-some seats. Is that some kind of record? If you missed out, consider holding your own....
August 2, 2006
Open source hacker extraordinaire Miguel de Icaza muses about the state of GUI APIs in light of Avalon: I just had a realization today. Microsoft’s Avalon is the J2EE of...