The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Ruby the Rival: What does Java look like post-Rails?

    O’Reilly’s ONJava.com had a chat with four prominent Java developers under the title of “Ruby the Rival”. Half of them has switched a big chunk of their development to Rails....

  • Snakes and Rubies in Chicago on December 3rd

    Chicago is turning into the hotbed for web-application framework development with both a majority of the Rails and Django teams in town. So we thought we’d celebrate that with a...

  • Why engines and components are not evil but distracting

    I’ve been following the enthusiasm for engines, components, and bigger plugins from the sidelines for a while now. It’s a subject of very mixed emotions. On the one hand, I’m...

  • Calling Virtual Earth from Ruby on Rails

    Luke Burton has a cool article on how to integrate Virtual Earth and Ruby on Rails. It’s surprisingly easy and relies only on libraries shipping in the box.

  • Play and help llor.nu

    Michael Buffington has just opened up llor.nu for general consumption. It’s an open source board game built on Rails. Besides the hosted version, you can download the source and Michael...

  • Rails 1.0 RC4 (0.14.3): It's the final countdown!

    Comrades, we are so close to the goal that the relieve should be tastable. The mythical 1.0 release is now penned to be the very next release once we rattle...

  • Liquid templates announced

    Liquid is a brand new template engine optimized for xhtml and emails. It features a very clean syntax and speedy execution speeds. The main difference to traditional ERb is that...

  • Inviting Rails extenders to join the rails-core ML

    If you’re working on patches for Rails, you should sign up for the rails-core mailing list. It’s much more low-traffic than the regular Rails mailing list and designated exclusively for...

  • Making REST web services with Ruby on Rails

    O’Reilly’s XML.com has a new article entitled REST on Rails that explores the building of a simple REST-based web service. They even finish up with a tad of meta-programming to...

  • Komodo 3.5: IDE with support for Ruby on Rails

    RadRails is getting company from commercial player ActiveState that has recently shipped Komodo 3.5, their IDE for dynamic languages. Komodo features support for Ruby and Rails and is available on...