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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • lighttpd makes a proxy comeback

    As Mongrel continues to bubble to the top of the preferred production stack, we’ve started to evaluate web servers on their proxy rather than their FCGI support. The lighttpd crew...

  • Testing with CSS selectors

    If you have trouble wrapping your head around assert_tag and its options, you might want to give CSS selectors a chance instead. There are currently two plugins for handling that:...

  • Composite primary keys for Active Record

    Dr Nic Williams has charged one of the major strongholds of legacy database compatibility with Rails, composite primary keys support. By installing his nimble plugin, you get a very natural...

  • Typo 4.0 released, with Rails App Installer

    I’m only a week behind on the release of Typo 4. Typo is one of the oldest and most visible of Rails open source projects, so it’s always nice to...

  • Rails is 2 years old

    It seemed to have slipped all of our minds, but yesterday, the 25th of July marks the 2 year anniversary of Rails’ release. Here’s David’s announcement email to the ruby-talk...

  • Rails Conference slides coming soon

    Jay Zimmerman just wrote to say that next Wednesday, July 26th, the presentation media for RailsConf 2006 will go on sale to the general public. So if you didn’t get...

  • 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...