The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

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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...

  • European RailsConf talk proposals

    Talk proposals are now being accepted for the European Rails Conference, to be held September 14-15 in London. Accepted speakers will get free admission to the conference. Join a line...

  • Rails 1.1.3: Security fix and minor fixes

    We’ve found and fixed a security issue with routing that could cause excess CPU usage in Rails processes when triggered by certain URLs. We strongly encourage anyone running 1.1.x to...

  • The Power of the Marginal

    Paul Graham delivered one of the keynotes to an audience of about 550 people this weekend at RailsConf. The text of his talk, The Power of the Marginal, is now...

  • New Rails app: MOG.com

    You may have seen MOG mentioned on BoingBoing or elsewhere earlier this week. It’s the new social networking site that lets music lovers connect based on what they’re into, keep...

  • Happy Rails Day!

    RailsDay 2006 is in progress! Teams around the world will be working furiously all day to produce the best application possible in 24 hours. This year, you can watch the...

  • Tips on how to improve application efficiency

    Rails performance specialist Stefan Kaes, who writes extensively about optimizing Rails over at Rails Express has a lengthy article at the new InfoQ site called A Look at Common Performance...

  • Remember CRC Cards?

    In 1988, Ward Cunningham (yes, that Ward Cunningham) came up with an idea to use index cards as a tool for object-oriented design. I was working for Kent Beck at...