Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Ruby, Rails meetup in San Diego tonight

    The TextDrive guys are gathering at The Field tonight in San Diego for the RubyConf attendees that are still in town. See the announcement on the TextDrive site.

  • Instant Rails: Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL package for Windows

    Curt Hibbs has released Instant Rails for Windows. It’s a package of everything needed to get Ruby on Rails running on Apache and MySQL. It’s nicely done as just a...

  • "What is Ruby on Rails?" on ORA and Slashdot

    Curt Hibbs is continuing his long-running series of articles for O’Reilly with What is Ruby on Rails? It’s a great overview of all the frameworks in Rails and what it...

  • Bruce Perens develops model security for Active Record

    Bruce Perens is working on model security for Active Record sponsored by Sourcelabs: I’ve developed ModelSecurity, a new Ruby on Rails facility that helps developers implement a security defense in...

  • Rails jobs in Los Angeles and Austin

    Two more Rails jobs ticked into my mailbox today. One with Bluebin Industries in Los Angeles, another with a new Austin-based Start-up. If you got the Rails chops and is...

  • Major healthcare application switches from J2EE to Rails

    Rick Bradley shares a great case study on how his team replaced a partial J2EE solution that wasn’t moving the team forward fast enough with Rails. Result? A 20:1 reduction...

  • Rails become more pluggable

    Jamis has a good run-down of the new plugin system that we’ve created for Rails. The implementation is silly simple, but its usage is powerful. The system is already driving...

  • Even more Rails training from Relevance

    In case the public, scheduled training programs doesn’t fit your organization, consider Relevance for on-site appointments instead. Justin Gethland and team offers a wide range of packages. Including a 2-day...

  • Typo theme contest: Win cool stuff!

    Geoffrey Grosenbach has put together a Typo theme contest to get a whole bunch of cool new blog designs generated for the premiere Rails blogging engine. You can win the...

  • Rake 0.6.2 fixes incompatibilities

    Jim Weirich has released Rake 0.6.2, which fixes the incompatibilities that earlier 0.6.x releases had with Rails. Just fire up gems and do “gem install rake” to get the latest....