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...

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.