The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Secrets Behind Ruby on Rails: The Numbers

    ITConversations has just made David’s OSCON 2005 keynote, Secrets Behind Ruby on Rails, available for download. One of the big stories for Rails in August was the numbers behind its...

  • Running Rails on the LiteSpeed webserver

    The LiteSpeed Web Server is a commercial engine made to be largely config-compatible with Apache, but promising massive speed increases. If the web server is the bottleneck in your setup,...

  • Camping: A micro-version of Rails

    why the lucky stiff is at it again with his great stuff. This time he has produced a microframework called Camping in the spirit and feel of Rails, but clocking...

  • Globalize (i18n for Rails) gets new home

    www.globalize-rails.org is the new home for the Globalize plugin that brings i18n functionality to Rails. They’re tackling everything from translations of model data, to proper formating of local times, and...

  • OpenLaszlo for Ruby on Rails

    Oliver Steele is working on OpenLaszlo integration for Ruby on Rails. There’s a OpenLaszlo gem out there now and a Rails plugin to hook it all up for easy generation...

  • Pick a license for your Rails additions

    Rails is released under MIT and only includes packages that are either directly under MIT or were re-licensed specifically for Rails under MIT. But not all plugins, generators, engines, or...

  • O'Reilly's first Rails book premieres in beta form

    O’Reilly has launched their Rough Cuts series with Ruby on Rails: Up and running as one of the first titles leading the charge. Rough Cuts is O’Reilly’s version of Beta...

  • Rails and the book both finalists for Jolt Awards

    The Jolt Awards have been honoring products of excellence and high productivity for 15 years and this year both Rails 1.0 and Agile Web Development with Rails made the cut...

  • Rake 0.7.0 has been released

    Rake 0.7.0 has taken a great leap forward with the addition of parallel execution tasks and namespaces. Upcoming releases of Rails will surely use namespaces, so please do familiarize yourself...

  • Canada on Rails announces schedule

    The schedule and list of speakers for Canada on Rails has been announced. The conference is happening April 13-14th in Vancouver.