Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
May 8, 2006
Changset 4325 adds the :uniq option to has_many :through. Josh Susser, ActiveRecord associations guru, offers a nice write up of what it means for has_many :through to have :uniq. You...
May 8, 2006
In this installment of the Rails podcast, Geoffrey Grosenbach catches up with Obie Fernandez of Thoughtworks. Obie has been using Rails with great success to take on “enterprise” scale projects....
May 4, 2006
Plugins are the official way to bend Rails to do your bidding. Creating a plugin is a great way to share your Rails extensions with others who may find them...
May 4, 2006
The first RailsConf scheduled for June 22-25 in Chicago sold out so fast it made our heads spin. 550 seats were snatched up before the program was even ready or...
May 3, 2006
John Long has announced the initial release of Radiant, the simple and elegant CMS that is planned to eventually power the redesigned reincarnation of the official Ruby website, ruby-lang.org. You...
May 2, 2006
It’s back. Agile Web Development with Rails is now available in a 50%-done beta version of its second edition. Pretty much everything is getting a major overhaul. All the cool...
April 28, 2006
Up until the 1.1 release, the way to automatically destroy has_many associations when the owner was itself destroyed was to either use the :dependent or :exclusively_dependent option when declaring the...
April 26, 2006
Reboot 8 is happening on June 1st and 2nd in Copenhagen and the conference is looking for a handful of cool demos to play part in the conference. The organizers...
April 26, 2006
Though not an outward facing feature, changeset 4276 introduces a nice method to DRY up and encapsulate the common pattern of aliasing a method so that you can build behavior...
April 26, 2006
Jeremy Voorhis of PLANET ARGON has announced that he has signed on to write Rails In a Nutshell for O’Reilly Media. You can get more details and signup to be...