The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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.

  • Caching models with memcached

    The Robot Co-op has released their memcache-client and a plugin for Active Record that uses it. This enables you to cache your models in the distributed memory cache and not...

  • A calendar for Rails training

    Geoffrey Grosenbach has launched Ruby on Rails Workshops: A calendar for tracking training for Rails around the world. January alone has no less than 8(!) opportunities for getting wiser with...

  • Submit your RailsConf talks now or never

    RailsConf will close its call for participation in less than two weeks. So you need to hurry up with that idea for a talk and produce a proposal.

  • SwitchTower with Bazaar-NG

    Damien Merenne has just announced a Bazaar-NG SCM module for SwitchTower. All you bzr users now have one less reason to not use SwitchTower. Damien has given permission for this...

  • Rick Olson is for hire

    Rick Olson is a friend of the core group, an accomplished extender of Rails, the driver behind Rails Weenie, and a great guy to boot. If you’re looking to hire...