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

  • 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...

  • SwitchTower as an Automated Deployment Archetype

    Mike Clark has written a provocative article entitled SwitchTower as an Automated Deployment Archetype in which he suggests that developers of all stripes ought to consider SwitchTower for their deployment...

  • Canada on Rails: Vancouver, April 13th

    On top of the official RailsConf in Chicago in June, Rails developers are getting a second chance to get together and rejoice this year. Canada on Rails is a two-day...

  • RailsConf 2006: June 22-25, Chicago

    The long-rumoured RailsConf is a reality. We’ve just launched the website and finally announced the dates and place. It’s going down in the lovely Chicago Summer on June 22nd through...