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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Getting Real after RailsConf in Chicago

    If you’re in Chicago for RailsConf, you might want to extend your stay to include the following Monday. The Getting Real workshop by 37signals is going down on June 26th....

  • Wellington Rails User's Group

    Tomek Piatek and others have started Well Railed, the Rails User’s Group in Wellington, NZ. The first meeting will be on the 30th May at 6:30-ish at Hell Pizza in...

  • Tom Copeland on the Rails podcast

    The latest Rails podcast features Tom Copeland, one of the guys who generously runs RubyForge. Some might be surprised to know that Rich Kilmer and Tom Copeland have been running...

  • Interview with Mongrel developer Zed Shaw

    Zed Shaw’s new (mostly) Ruby webserver Mongrel has been getting people’s attention lately. What started out as perhaps just an itch has turned into a full time project for Zed,...

  • Weekly interactive guides with Kevin Clark

    Kevin Clark, the guy whose recently taken on the documentation cleanup project, is diversifying his documentation work. His latest idea: weekly interactive guides. Write into Kevin with requests on a...