The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Easily find inefficient queries with QueryTrace

    Nathaniel Talbott of test/unit fame has just released a new plugin he calls QueryTrace. I’ll let him explain what it does: It’s nice that ActiveRecord logs the queries that are...

  • A gentle reminder about pluralizations

    Watching the RSS feed from the Ruby on Rails trac is a great way to keep up on what’s happening in Rails development. If you’re doing any development on the...

  • Welcome Josh Susser to the Rails weblog

    You may already know Josh Susser from his excellent blog has_many :through. After linking up 5 of his posts in a row we figured it would be easier to cut...

  • Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails group forming

    For those of you in the Silicon Valley, Zachary Taylor and others are starting up a Ruby on Rails group and are looking for people interested in joining in. They...

  • Rails Recipes is out of beta

    Chad Fowler’s excellent Rails Recipes, quickly becoming the de facto companion to the canonical Agile Web Development with Rails, is out of beta and off to the printers. Now that...