The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Getting Real with Rails (now for kids, too!)

  • Introducing SwitchTower: Distributed deployment for Rails

    SwitchTower is a utility for executing commands in parallel on multiple machines. It lets you (among many other things) deploy distributed applications with a single command. When your application is...

  • Rails 1.0: The Release Candidate (2)

    The release of 1.0 is near upon us! It has been a long time in the making, involved a heroic final sprint at RubyConf by the core team, and is...

  • The State of Ruby on Rails '05

    Thanks to Jim Freeze and Bill Kleb, we have excellent audio recordings of all the RubyConf talks. Together with the slides, you can at least get the sense of being...

  • Burton Group teleconference available for free

    The Burton Group teleconference on Ruby on Rails is now available for free (but you have to sign up). It’s a panel discussion between Dave Thomas, Dave Geary, yours truly,...