The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails Studio: Dave Thomas and Mike Clark hits Denver

    The first Rails Studio was a sell-out, run-away success, so naturally Dave Thomas and Mike Clark are up for it again. This time they’re hitting Denver, Colorado from January 19th...

  • Dan Benjamin interviewed by the Rails Podcast

    Dan Benjamin is the developer behind A List Apart. Geoffrey Grosenbach caught up with him for a chat about building high-traffic sites on Rails and launching ALA. Listen to the...

  • Ruby, Rails, lighttpd, and MySQL from scratch on Tiger

    Dan Benjamin has put together a short and sweet introduction for getting the combination of Ruby, Rails, lighttpd, and MySQL running on OS X Tiger.

  • Amrita2: Another choice for templates in Rails

    Amrita2 is a template engine that separates template logic and content. It’s a very different style than the standard ERb approach of Rails, but if squeaky clean HTML templates tickle...

  • Letting go of scaffolding

    Amy Hoy teaches you have to let go of scaffolding and move further down the rabbit hole. See links up a few good starter points to help you on your...

  • Rails RC5 (0.14.4): Next stop one-oh (really, this time!)

    It’s been a month since we promised that RC4 would be the final countdown. And counting down we have. We’ve fixed a ton of major, minor, and aesthetic issues and...

  • SwitchTower problems on OSX

    This has been coming up often enough that it deserves to be posted somewhere visible. If you are trying to use SwitchTower with the stock version of Ruby that ships...

  • Interview with the CD babies: Derek and Jeremy

    Robby Russell has interviewed Derek Sivers and Jeremy Kemper about the Rails rewrite of CDBaby.com for O’Reilly. A choice bit from Derek: I was already studying Martin Fowler’s books like...

  • Interview with Chad Fowler

    The Ruby on Rails Podcast has yet another interview, this time with the great Chad Fowler, author of My Job Went To India. Chad’s in charge of organizing this year’s...

  • The 37signals' Getting Real workshop

    On January 27th, 37signals will once again be sharing insights, ideas, passion, opinions, and vision on how to build an online business in The Getting Real Workshop. We’ll be talking...