The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Plug into HyperEstraier with acts_as_searchable

    Patrick Lenz has announced his acts_as_searchable plugin which integrates ActiveRecord models with HyperEstraier, an open source fulltext search engine. It’s available as a gem so you can just do sudo...

  • Rails 1.1.1: Fixing a slew of minors (but you must still freeze Typo)

    Rails 1.1 was a big upgrade with a lot of new features and we’ve been working hard since its release to polish off the kinks revealed after it was deployed...

  • Running your app from the console

    Rails 1.1 lets you run your app right from the console by exposing the new Integration Testing framework. Mike Clark, of Pragmatic Studio and the upcoming Production Rails fame, has...

  • Polymorphic associations don't go :through

    So you’ve probably figured by now that polymorphic associations don’t play well with :through. It’s a pretty tough problem to solve, but thankfully there are ways around it. Josh Susser...

  • Exploring the performance of Rails 1.1

    Stefan Kaes has posted both the executive summary of Rails 1.1 performance (up to 11% faster in special cases) and a complete explanation of most of the performance enhancing changes....

  • Mostly good news about freezing, Typo, and Rails 1.1.1

    Let’s start with the good news about freezing and Rails 1.1.1: New applications will automatically bind to the gem version of Rails they were created with using a RAILS_GEM_VERSION constant...

  • Production Rails: Rails Training Gets Deeper and More Focused

    As the art of Rails development matures, so do the ways we teach and learn about it. Following the release of Rails 1.1, the state of Rails training just took...

  • Upload Progress Helper and Rails 1.1

    One of the casualties of the 1.1 release was the experimental upload progress helper. Unfortunately it didn’t work on all the platforms we support and it was a source of...

  • Freeze is cool, so freeze for goodness sake

    Many shared hosts did a quick dance up and down at the release of Rails 1.1 because a large number of their customers were floating off the gems, which meant...

  • Rails 1.1: The Forgotten Features

    Today, Mike Clark follows the release of Rails 1.1 with: Rails 1.1: The Forgotten Features, a writeup of some of the little changes in Rails 1.1 that, though not big...