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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Distributing Rails applications easily

    Erik Veenstra has written a very cool guide on how to package Rails applications for easy distribution as native executables on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

  • Asterisk on Rails at O'Reilly Emerging Telephony

    Joe Heitzeberg is going to be presenting a session at O’Reilly’s upcoming Emerging Telephony conference on Asterisk on Rails. His work goes to make the open-source PBX easier to use...

  • Learn Ruby on Rails from the Pragmatics

    Dave Thomas and Mike Clark has just announced the Pragmatic Studio and their intentions to run a Rails Studio as their first workshop. It’ll be two days of action-packed Ruby...

  • RadRails: Eclipse-based IDE specifically for Ruby on Rails

    Since not everyone has yet switched to a Mac and can enjoy the benefits of TextMate, we need people working on better editor and IDE support for other platforms. RadRails...

  • Ruby on Rails in Wired by Tim O'Reilly

    Tim O’Reilly recently did a piece called “What’s on Tim’s Radar?”. It features a handful of concepts and software that Tim O’Reilly believes to be “…innovative, world-changing, or just plain...

  • Writeboard: The 4th 37signals' application on Rails

    Writeboards are collaborative documents with version control, difference tracking, and comments. They’re created through Writeboard.com, the latest Rails application from 37signals. And if you happen to have a Backpack, you...

  • Locomotive 0.2.4: Easy Rails for OS X

    Ryan Raaum has just released a new version of Locomotive. It’s a collection of all the necessary dependencies for running Ruby on Rails on OS X and it ships with...

  • Problematic dependencies: RedCloth 3.0.4 and Rake 0.6.0

    Two of the frequent dependencies for Rails applications, RedCloth and Rake, both have problems in their latest releases. So you want to install the version just behind the latest. Install...

  • Database-agnostic schemas with migrations

    ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 8) do create_table "authors" do |t| t.column "name", :string t.column "ip", :string t.column "book_id", :integer end create_table "books" do |t| t.column "name", :string t.column "url_name", :string t.column "existing_page_titles",...

  • Lighttpd moves to address file upload issues

    The lighttpd team is well underway to remove the last major barrier for widespread adoption: File upload handling. Jan has written about the improved approach to file uploads that’ll buffer...