The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Brand your desktop with red

    (now also available in blue)

  • Comparing technology stacks (of books)

    Jon Tirsen is having fun comparing tech stacks:

  • Pragmatic Rails Studio sells out

    Dave Thomas and Mike Clark will be playing for a full house in Reston as they deliver their first Pragmatic Studio workshop on Ruby on Rails. Congratulations, guys!

  • Refactoring Rails is coming soon

    Refactoring Rails is a new site in the making by Jeremy Voorhis and Robby Russell that’ll focus on how you can make sure that “…your code is for a human...

  • Themes, migrations, graphs, and alternate routes

    A bunch of good articles on various Rails-related topics lately: Bar graphs with gruff: Make Keynote-like pretty graphs with RMagick without breaking a sweat. The Joy of Migrations: Step by...