The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Faster Testing with Rails 1.0

    Mike Clark has written a very thorough guide and explanation for the change in testing defaults we arrived at with Rails 1.0. It goes through what to change and why...

  • Tracking plugins temporarily on the wiki

    One of the more exciting new community features in Rails 0.14 is the plugin system. It drastically lowers the barrier for people that wants to distribute their changes to the...

  • Rails 1.0 RC3 (0.14.2): A bunch of little things

    We’ve pushed out the third release candidate for 1.0 of Rails. This release most prominently fixes a memory leak with render_component (which affected Typo among others), the scaffolding bug, and...

  • Rails podcast has been relaunched

    The Rails podcast is back in business with a handful of new shows conducted by Geoffrey Grosenbach of Topfunky. There are interviews with Amy Hoy, Obie, Matt, and Thomas Fuchs....

  • Happy Railing on Halloween!

  • Dan Peterson is the new Rails sysadmin, fixes Trac

    Our trusty Rails server Wrath was generating cruft and crust faster than you could say we-have-no-sysadmin, so at RubyConf we decided to remedy the situation and ask for help. Dan...

  • Skunk Studios: Games portal in Rails

    Seth Banks has launched Skunk Studios. It’s a games portal for mini-games available for single play or buy. Neat stuff.

  • A few more Rails jobs in NYC, Santa Clara

    Sebastian Delmont from New York City is looking for 1-2 full-time (no telecommuting) Ruby on Rails developers for a new consumer-focused startup. Write him sd at notso.net. 3 Leaf Networks...

  • Better findings with named placeholders

    Robby on Rails has a great introduction to named placeholders in Rails. Making ActiveRecord::Base.find more readable and secure at the same time, what’s not to like? Please Robby, or someone...

  • Two additional Rails' cores join 37signals

    Sam Stephenson and Marcel Molina are no longer available for custom consulting jobs through Ionist. Both are now “made men” of the 37signals syndicate. They will certainly continue to amuse...