Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails is reaching the tipping point

    We’ve had a lot of discussions of Rails as a disruptive technology, but now David Geary is focusing on explaining the growth (and imminent growth) through the lens of Gladwell’s...

  • Alonovo: Socially-responsible shopping on Rails

    Alonovo launched a little while back. It’s a market place that provides a way to do “socially-responsible shopping”. That is, buying from companies that behaves according to how you think...

  • Cartographer: Effortless Google Maps in Rails

    Courtenay and bousquet are behind Cartographer that allows you to integrate Google Maps in your Ruby on Rails application with no effort. A few API tastes: <%= gmap(:mapname=>"my_map", :width=>"50", :height=>"120")...

  • Why Ryan Tomayko switched to Ruby on Rails

    Ryan Tomayko is a long-term Python guy in search of a web-development platform for his small tech company. His evaluation first went along the lines of safety vs freedom languages...

  • Get taggable like all the cool kids

    Demetrius Nunes has a very cool acts-as mixin ready for you in a single line. It allows you to do stuff like: class Photo < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_taggable end elephant =...

  • How Ruby on Rails can ease the life of managers

    Justin Gehtland examines five benefits of Ruby on Rails to managers. He believes that not only does Rails change the game for developers, it also holds a significant impact on...

  • Sam Ruby takes Rails to Sri Lanka FOSSSL

    We suspected a pattern was emerging as IBM’s Sam Ruby first at OSCON reenacted the original joke from etech, then posted about the Rails Confidence Builder, and finally combined that...

  • Using Ajax to route dangerous methods through POST

    Jarkko Laine has a tutorial up on how to use Ajax to do deletes and other dangerous methods through POST instead of GET. So you can sleep safe at night...

  • Don't look at Rails if you have to do .NET

    Sam gives a word of caution to fellow .NET developers regarding Ruby on Rails: Once you write an application in MonoRail you’ll never want to go back to regular ASP.NET....

  • A guide for changing programming languages

    So what’s Duane Gran to do? He clearly has the hots for Ruby on Rails: If your group develops web-based applications, you need to know about Ruby on Rails. It...