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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • i5labs pushing the limits of Rails

    In November, PlanetMoon launched Infected, a first-person shooter game for Playstation Portable. The PSP game has two-pieces, one, the actual PSP game (which is C++), and a statistics reporting tool...

  • 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...