The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Enterprise Integration with Ruby by Maik Schmidt

    Maik Schmidt is the contributor and maintainer of the DB2 database adapter for Active Record. He’s now also an author of Enterprise Integration with Ruby, which has just been released...

  • Learn how to make Rails fast from a master

    Stefan Kaes has been untiringly pushing for optimizations of Rails. Since the release of Rails 0.12.1, Stefan has lead an effort that made his own sample application no less than...

  • Typo theme contest: Win tons of stuff including a Powerbook

    The Typo theme contest just got beefed up quite bit. Site 5 has offered a 15" Powerbook for the wining theme and a 12" iBook for number two. That’s on...

  • eWEEK: Ruby on Rails Dev Framework on Track for Growth

    eWEEK has another cool article on the growth of Ruby on Rails. Including comments from ActiveState and JBoss. Good stuff.

  • Chinese Slashdotting of Rails

    I’m guessing that the article is talking about the News.com feature today, the BBC announcement, and the fact that the Sun CEO was dropping us link love, but I’m not...

  • Rails and Zvents on Digital Life TV

    Tyler Kovacs, CTO of Zvents, had a great segment in the DigitalLife TV episode 10 where he got to showcase his Rails application and talk about Ruby on Rails and...

  • BBC is using Rails for programme catalogue of a million shows

    Hot on the heels of the announcement that Rails has gone truly mainstream by a cover story on news.com, the BBC has announced that its opening up its programme catalogue...

  • Ruby on Rails at News.com and ZDNet

    Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming is a the title of a very positive Rails article that’s running both on News.com and on ZDNet.

  • Get 10-15% more performance with MySQL/Rails

    Rails 0.14.x and forward contains a hefty performance increase for the MySQL adapter, but it requires that you have the latest version of the underlying, native bindings (2.7). On Stephan...

  • Don't be so arrogant

    Some times you just need an outside opinion to achieve true clarity of vision. Thankfully, there’s always such an angel available when you need it the most: Rails shows some...