The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy

    CUSEC 2006 in Montreal this past January featured a great line up of speakers including Chad Fowler, Kathy Sierra and David Heinemeier Hansson. Except snow storms in the midwest kept...

  • List of what's coming up in Rails 1.1

    Today someone on the Rails mailing list asked, innocently enough, “Is there by any chance some document available summarizing all the (major) beautiful new stuff in Rails 1.1?” As is...

  • Campfire: Web-based chatting on Rails

    Campfire by 37signals has launched. It’s web-based group chat for business where file transfers work reliably and where you have shared access to the logs. It’s also dripping with delicious...

  • RailsConf: 150 additional seats open GONE!

    Due to the overwhelming success of selling 400 seats in just a week, RailsConf has been able to extend the venue and open up an additional 150 seats. So if...

  • Two new interviews with Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson

    MySQL developer Lenz Grimmer has a quick chat with David for the MySQL developer zone. Also, uk.BUILDER.com has a long and insightful interview. David explains how 1.0 should have really...

  • Rails training opportunities in Europe

    In the next few months, our friends over in Europe will be getting several opportunities to attend Rails training courses. Geoffrey Grosenbach, the man behind the Rails podcast as well...

  • Book: Ruby for Rails available via Manning Early Access program

    Long time resident mentor on ruby-talk and Ruby Central co-founder, David Black, is just finishing up a book that should be of special interest to those whose first Ruby experiences...