The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Typical questions by Rails skeptics

    Wade Winningham has collected a list of typical questions by Rails skeptics along with his best attempt to answer them. Do you have any more that would fit?

  • Rapid Web Development mit Ruby on Rails

    Ralf Wirdemann and Thomas Baustert have released Rapid Web Development mit Ruby on Rails. The first German book on Rails and published by Hanser. It should be available in stores...

  • More templating choice with Markaby for Rails

    why the lucky stiff and Tim Fletcher have released a pretty cool templating language for Rails called Markaby that looks like Builder, but assumes a few more things to make...

  • Pragmatic Studio comes to Chicago

    Mike Clark and Dave Thomas are taking their acclaimed Pragmatic Studio: Rails to Chicago this coming February. From the 16th through the 18th, you can learn all about building Rails...

  • Thomas Fuchs on Audible Ajax

    Thomas Fuchs, a Rails core developer and the creator of the fantastic script.aculo.us library, has been interviewed on Audible Ajax. Learn about the origins and future of script.aculo.us, Rails with...

  • SwitchTower with Perforce

    Richard McMahon has written about using Perforce as the SCM with SwitchTower (here). He’s even written a custom Perforce SCM module for SwitchTower, so if you’re a Perforce user wanting...

  • TextMate v1.5 released

    TextMate is the editor powering the work of every single core contributor and now the best just got even better. The 1.5 release of TextMate is the first official in...

  • Balancing two approaches to web development

    Ruby superstar Jim Weirich gives an insightful overview of the environment that led to Rails, showing how it strikes a balance between PHP and Java. We’ve seen this bisection played...

  • Snakes and Rubies video now available

    Several months ago we announced the Snakes and Rubies event that took place in Chicago. It was well attended and lively and the entire thing was recorded. The footage is...

  • SwitchTower 0.10.0

    You can read the complete changelog, but here’s a quick overview of some of the most notable changes: Bugs Fixed Handle SSH password prompts formatted like “someone’s password:” Allow the...