The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • 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...