Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
May 16, 2006
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...
May 15, 2006
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...
May 14, 2006
The chaps at the JRuby project has been making rapid progress in anticipation of JavaOne. They finally got a simple, but complete Rails application running. I hear it’s not breaking...
May 14, 2006
Graeme Mathieson of Rubaidh has put together a Rails user group for Scotland. Their first meeting is on the 25th of May.
May 11, 2006
Most Rails applications are deployed in a Unix server environment. Tools like Capistrano make this dead easy. For those working in a Windows environment, deployment can get considerably harder. The...
May 10, 2006
Josh Susser is at it again. He’s whiped up a PDF presentation called Laying Tracks which details the hows and the whys of contributing patches to Rails. At just 16...
May 10, 2006
We’ve recently decided to put some work into Rails documentation. We’d like to flesh out the existing docs, add documentation for the corners that are lacking and update what may...
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...