The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!

    The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make...

  • San Diego Ruby Users Group

    There is some action down in San Diego on the Ruby and Rails front. The local RUG, after some time of inactivity, is revving back up. If you live in...

  • Rails for designers

    Kevin Clark has written up Rails for designers, an intro to Rails directed at designers which focuses on the parts and concepts of the framework that are of most immediate...

  • The Jolt Award

  • Rails meeting in Amsterdam on March 30th

    Thijs and crew from fingertips is arranging a Rails meet-up in Amsterdam on March 30th. Swing by if you’re in the neighborhood.

  • It's raining awards for Rails

    First we snatched the Jolt Award for Rails 1.0, now the RadRails team has snatched the Best Open Source Eclipse-based Developer Tool at EclipseCon. Rock on, guys!

  • Rails 1.1: Release Candidate 1 available

    It’s been roughly three months since the release of the big one-oh. That’s obviously an eternity in Rails time, so its about high time we’re getting ready for the release...

  • Software setup behind Robot Co-op

    For those who were interested by last week’s post on the Robot Co-op’s hardware setup, Eric Hodel has posted a follow up detailing the Robot Co-op’s software setup. If you...

  • Rails Training Coast to Coast (and beyond)

    Mike and Dave are mobilizing their perpetually sold out Pragmatic Rails Studio again. This time, they’re hitting both coasts of the USA. First in Portland on April 10 followed by...

  • Quick PDF generation with RTex

    Bruce Williams of Naviance recently announced his RTex plugin. It exposes your controller data to rtex views that output LaTeX which is convereted to PDF. To install you can use...