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

  • Scott Raymond on Refactoring to REST

    Gonzo Rails developer Scott Raymond has written an analysis of how he refactored IconBuffet.com using RESTful routes. It’s the most cogent and compelling description of the benefits of a CRUDdy/RESTful...

  • European RailsConf Talk Proposal Deadline Approaching

    For the procrastinators out there, don’t forget that the talk proposal deadline for the European RailsConf is coming this Friday, July 21. If you missed RailsConf, this is your chance...

  • MenuTree helps you find food fast

    MenuTree is a new Rails application that seeks to make the search for new take-out places a more enjoyable experience. They just launched, so do help fill up the options...

  • New Enterprise Ruby Studio

    Right on the heels of Martin Fowler writing up Enterprise Rails, the Pragmatic Studio has announced the addition of their latest studio, Enterprise Ruby, the first of which will be...

  • David Heinemeier Hansson's RailsConf 2006 keynote now online

    David’s RailsConf 2006 keynote, Discovering a World of Resources on Rails, is now online. In this talk he announced the new ActiveResource project, for consuming REST web services and evangelized...

  • RailsConf keynotes on video

    If you missed RailsConf 2006, you’ll be glad to know that videos of the keynote presentations are being made available for online viewing and (coming soon) download. A collection of...

  • Pound makes lighty and Mongrel play nice

    With the rocket rise of Mongrel, we’ve seen a growing number of folks jump ship from lighttpd to Apache 2.2 because of mod_proxy_balancer. It’s great to see that Mongrel is...

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  • Learning more about Active Resource

    Active Resource was announced at RailsConf and the first tiny pieces of code has already been checked in, but what is it exactly? Ryan’s Scraps tries to answer that with...

  • Rails 1.1.4: Security fix without breakage

    The security fix from Rails 1.1.3 might have closed the hole, but it also caused breakage for people with controllers in modules. We’ve fixed that now, so Rails 1.1.4 should...