The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails Views

    Bruce Williams has started a new article series he calls Rails Views. Bruce is a long-time Rubyist and Rails early adopter and is the UI lead on development of a...

  • Associations guru Josh Susser available for hire

    Josh Susser has just announced that he is available for hire. Though relatively new on the Rails scene, Josh has proved a fast learner and has made his mark with...

  • Testing RJS with ARTS

    An Achilles’ heal of Rails is no good way to test your RJS. As the presentation behavior gets more and more sophisticated, the inability to test it becomes a real...

  • The Railways at Reboot 8

    Finnish superstar Jarkko Laine, who’s been in the Rails community since day one, is going to be hosting a discussion this Thursday around 9PM at Reboot 8 in Copenhagen called...

  • Rails Helps People Find and Share Wine

    Dan Benjamin, the man who brought A List Apart to Rails, has teamed up with web-standards guru Dan Cederholm and launched Cork’d, a free service for wine fans. Built with...

  • Listing all the Rails books currently available

    We now have a new book list page on the Rails site that contains all the titles that are currently out in print or beta form. We’ll be adding to...

  • Sam Stephenson gets a blog

    Rails core member, 37signaler and Prototype author Sam Stephenson has put up a blog over at sam.conio.net. He starts off by sharing some of his plans for Prototype 2.0 with...

  • Guide: Environments in Rails 1.1

    As mentioned last week, Kevin Clark is taking your suggestions and developing weekly guides that cover the ins and outs of Rails. He’s delivered on his first guide: Environments in...

  • Dan Webb's Request Routing Plugin

    Have you ever wanted to write Rails routes using a URL’s subdomain? What about routing based on whether a request was HTTP vs HTTPS? Well, now you can. Recently Dan...

  • Rails Day 2006

    Last June was the first Rails Day, where teams of two or three competed to build the best all around Rails app in a 24 hour period. Well they’re doing...