The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • ThoughtWorks wins big contract on Rails

    Obie Fernandez has a great story on how ThoughtWorks recently won a $800,000 bid for a critical application against another consultancy. They probably do that all the time, but the...

  • .NET'ers tell Scoble why they left for Rails

    Microsoft’s Robert Scoble is concerned about the exodus of developers like Phil Ripperger that are leaving .NET for Ruby on Rails. Phil put it like this: Scoble, as a web...

  • How picking Rails over Java affects bidding

    Stuart Halloway explains in numbers how picking Rails over Java affects the bids he puts in for consulting jobs. Since the actual programming is only one part of the bid,...

  • New podcast: Rick Olson aka Technoweenie

    Geoffrey has interviewed Rick Olson aka Technoweenie for the Rails Podcast. Rick explains the Rails plugin system, RJS templates, and Rails-weenie.

  • Hacking Asterisk and Rails with RAGI

    O’Reilly has a new article on Rails exploring how it can help you tame the open-source PBX system Asterisk: Hacking Asterisk and Rails with RAGI.

  • New book: Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler

    Chad Fowler threw off his Enterprise shackles a while back and ventured into a new and better life doing Ruby on Rails full time. As the co-founder of RubyCentral, co-creator...

  • Rails training in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Seattle

    Marcel Molina’s Ruby on Rails Bootcamp was a sell-out smash hit at the Big Nerd Ranch a while back, so they’ve reeled him back in for another show going March...

  • Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers

    David A. Black is a pillar in the Ruby community, a co-founder of RubyCentral, toastmaster at RubyConf, and an all-round awesome Ruby programmer and friend. I’m very pleased to see...

  • RailsConf 2006: Now accepting talk proposals

    Crack your knuckles — Chad Fowler has announced that talk proposals are now being accepted for RailsConf 2006. Talks are around 50 minutes each, and speakers will receive free admission...

  • Rails 1.0: Party like it's one oh oh!

    15 months after the first public release, Rails has arrived at the big 1.0. What a journey! We’ve gone through thousands of revisions, tickets, and patches from hundreds of contributors...