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

  • 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...

  • New from O'Reilly: RJS Templates for Rails

    Cody Fauser has just announced the release of his PDF-only book RJS Templates for Rails. From almost the day we checked rjs into the repository, Cody was quickly singling himself...

  • Rails System Back on Track

    Hopefully you didn’t notice, but I’ve been very busy this weekend. I finally took the plunge and got all the Rails applications that run on this machine up to snuff....

  • Patience, Grasshopper

    We all know that for some time this blog has needed some love. Well at last it can be told: There’s been a super-secret project underway for a while to...

  • What's New in Edge Rails

    Ryan Daigle has recently started chronicling new features in Edge Rails. He’s doing a nice job of summarizing the new features, so if you don’t feel like keeping an eye...

  • Browse your Subversion Repositories

    Bounty Source provides the Open Source community with free hosting and tools including a task manager, a CMS, and a Subversion Code Repository. They’ve been gracious enough to release the...