The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Rails commit team jumps to 12 members

    Rails has converged enough in both code, culture, and ambition to expand the commit team to include all members of the Rails core team that have been active for at...

  • Another .NET developer goes for Rails

    Garret Dimon has a great explanation for why .NET is no longer his preferred tool for web development and why Ruby on Rails is. On Best Practices, he writes: Rails...

  • Migrating to Rails: Half from PHP, one third from Java

    The Burton Group survey of Rails origin has concluded and the results are in: Half the Railers that responded came from PHP, one third comes from Java. A third of...

  • Using CIA for continuous integration

    Jonathan have written a tutorial for getting up and running with CIA. CIA is a continuous-integration server that I threw together really quickly to please my own needs for running...

  • Mount your domain model as a file system with RailsFS

    _why has posted the mind bender of the week: RailsFS. With this nifty layer on top of FuseFS, you get to interact with your Active Record-driven domain model through the...