Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Sneak peak at effortless deployment with Rails Machine

    SwitchTower author Jamis Buck has provided an excellent manual documenting how to use it. Those who’ve taken the plunge are loving how easy it makes deployment, as well as myriad...

  • Audio from Future of Web Apps summit

    The Future of Web Apps summit put on by Carson Workshops was a veritable who’s who with representatives from Delicious, Flickr, Yahoo, Google and others. David Heinemeier Hansson was there...

  • RubyConf 2006 location announced

    Hot on the heals of the fervor behind the upcoming RailsConf, the location of RubyConf 2006 has been announced. This fall it’s going to be in Denver, Colorado from October...

  • Annotated models

    Ever working with a model and you forget what all of its columns are? Ever find yourself with your schema.rb open in a separate window so you can see what...

  • Getting Real: How to build web apps like 37s

    So now that we’ve forced our technology of web applications upon the world with Ruby on Rails, we decided to get opinionated about everything else involved too. Getting Real, the...

  • New in Rails: Enumerable#group_by and Array#in_groups_of

    Changeset 3726 adds two little methods to ActiveSupport: Enumerable#group_by and @ Array#in_groups_of@. Enumerable#group_by is for collecting an enumerable into sets, grouped by the result of a block. Useful, for example,...

  • Two Ruby articles in the latest ObjectiveView

    ObjectiveView, a journal for software developers that focuses each issue on a specific topic, has two Ruby related articles in their latest issue, New Technologies Focus. The first is an...

  • New for Rails 1.1: Integration Tests

    If you’ve ever tried to properly test complex scenarios involving multiple controller actions, you will notice that the Rails Functional Tests fall flat. The new Integration Tests, which have just...

  • Jim Weirich on the Rails podcast

    Jim Weirich has been using Ruby for ages. He’s one of the early-adopter all-stars from the days before Rails. Rails programmers will be familiar with his wildly popular and influencial...

  • Using Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X at the Apple Developer Connection

    The Apple Developer Connection has a nice Ruby on Rails tutorial called Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X. As the title suggests, it is aimed...