The first RailsConf scheduled for June 22-25 in Chicago sold out so fast it made our heads spin. 550 seats were snatched up before the program was even ready or...
John Long has announced the initial release of Radiant, the simple and elegant CMS that is planned to eventually power the redesigned reincarnation of the official Ruby website, ruby-lang.org. You...
It’s back. Agile Web Development with Rails is now available in a 50%-done beta version of its second edition. Pretty much everything is getting a major overhaul. All the cool...
Up until the 1.1 release, the way to automatically destroy has_many associations when the owner was itself destroyed was to either use the :dependent or :exclusively_dependent option when declaring the...
Reboot 8 is happening on June 1st and 2nd in Copenhagen and the conference is looking for a handful of cool demos to play part in the conference. The organizers...
Though not an outward facing feature, changeset 4276 introduces a nice method to DRY up and encapsulate the common pattern of aliasing a method so that you can build behavior...
Jeremy Voorhis of PLANET ARGON has announced that he has signed on to write Rails In a Nutshell for O’Reilly Media. You can get more details and signup to be...
The Signal vs Noise Job Board is a new alternative for finding good programmers and designers to work on Rails projects (among other things). It puts your job pitch in...
I still frequently see people in the #rubyonrails channel using @params in their code. For a while now @params has been deprecated in favor of simply params. For those who...
Matt Pelletier’s EastMedia, a Rails-centric firm out of New York City, has announced that they are offering two Rails classes in the near future. The first is a one day...