The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Ruby/Rails in the Valley: the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference

    David Black sends along this note about the upcoming Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, which features Rails core’s own Marcel Molina Jr. and Jeremy Kemper: Ruby Central is a name you...

  • Auto sanitized templates with Erubis

    Last month on the Rails core mailing list, a thread popped up (that went on and on) wherein the idea was proposed that rhtml templates should automatically sanitize output by...

  • Interview with Tobias Lutke of Shopify

    The decidedly right-brained Amy Hoy sat down for an interview with with core member and Rails old-timer Tobias Lütke. They talk about Jaded Pixel’s greatly anticipated Shopify as well as...

  • Hardware setup behind the Robot Co-op

    The Robot Co-op’s umbrella of Rails apps, including 43 Things and 43 Places, has become one of the poster children of large scale Rails applications in production. For all those...

  • Rails and the Agile book win top honors at Jolt awards

    Tonight at the Software Development Jolt Awards, Rails won the best web development tool award while the canonical Rails book, Agile Web Development with Rails, won for best technical book....

  • The Adventures of Scaling: A Case Study

    Patrick Lenz has started in on a case study The adventures of scaling, in four instalments, on how he made eins.de scale, improving its performance by about 60%. The online...

  • Bruce Tate on the Rails podcast

    While down in Austin for SXSW, Geoffrey Grosenbach caught up with Bruce Tate for the Ruby on Rails podcast. Bruce talks about how Rails is the catalyst behind a sea...

  • Rails makes headlines down under

    The Australian version of ComputerWorld has a great article about how Ruby on Rails is helping Spin Technologies migrate school portal schoolseek.com.au get off .NET. Jordan Brock speaks about how...

  • Fast Rake Task Completion for Zsh

    Those of you who love running Rake tasks but don’t like typing are in for a treat. Although there’s been task completion for Rake for a while now, most of...

  • 2.5 Million Requests

    In case you were wondering if Rails can scale: Eric Hodel reports that the Robot Co-op served 2,587,240 requests through their Rails applications last Saturday. Do you have any scalability...