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

  • 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...

  • RailsAppHosting partners with TextDrive

    RailsAppHosting is an incredibly promising turn-key hosting environment that makes it a snap to setup a new application complete with database and subversion repository through a web interface. What won...

  • 10 Reasons Rails Does Pluralization

    In the interest of world peace, here follows 10 explanations to why Rails does pluralization. Pick the one that’ll make you the most calm: A point of argument: Pluralization is...

  • Making an Ajaxified spellchecker with Rails

    Dee Zsombor has a great new article on how to use Aspell and Rails to create a Ajaxified spellchecking service that’s fast and tiny.

  • Driver wants in on Ruby on Rails

    Obie Fernandez retells a cute story from the VP of Marketing at ThoughtWorks, John Guerriere, who met an upcoming Rails developer as his driver to the airport: john: i was...

  • One more job: Work for Alonovo Labs

    Alonovo Labs is also looking for a Ruby on Rails superhero. Preferably in Phoenix or Northern California, but telecommuting for the right superstar is available.

  • Jobs, jobs, jobs: Hiring Ruby on Rails is hot

    You take off for just a little vacation and come back to an inbox stuffed with job offers for Ruby on Rails: LookSmart, based in San Francisco, is putting their...

  • A List Apart 4.0 uses Ruby on Rails

    A List Apart is an institution in web design. I’ve learned more than a few tricks over the years from this venerable magazine and its therefore with great honor that...

  • Comparing WebObjects to Ruby on Rails

    Deirdre recently gave a presentation at BarCamp that compares the implementation of the same application in Apple’s WebObjects to Ruby on Rails. It includes this graph that contrasts the code-base...