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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • RailsConf missing on .org, use .com

    A technical glitch has rendered railsconf.org inaccessible. Use railsconf.com in the meanwhile.

  • Canada on Rails is here too

    In the flurry of enthusiasm over the official RailsConf, Canada on Rails seems to have been a bit forgotten. It’s going down in Vancouver on April 13th and 14th. I’ll...

  • The argon express to RailsConf

    Planet Argon and friends have arranged a cross-country rails ride from Portland to Chicago for RailsConf. They’re inviting you to jump on board.

  • Testing the view with Selenium

    Selenium enables you to test the view by driving it through a real browser. This allows you to test that your application works correctly in multiple browsers and that the...

  • RailsConf: 65% 80% of the seats sold!

    RailsConf was announced less than a week ago and the seats are going faster than snappy quick. Of the 400 tickets for sale, 265 were gone as of this morning....

  • Rails Recipes premieres in beta book form

    Chad Fowler has completed the first draft of the initial 21 chapters for Rails Recipes and is now making the work available as a beta book for purchase. The final...

  • RailsConf 2006 selling fast

    We opened up registration for RailsConf 2006 just over 12 hours ago and already have over 100 people signed up! Dave Thomas and Mike Clark’s Guidebook session is also already...

  • RailsConf 2006: Open for registration!

    The first official Rails conference has opened its doors to registrations and is tempting with a wide variety of auxiliary announcements. While all the sessions haven’t been announced yet, the...

  • 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,...