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

  • 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...

  • Convince your manager to let you use Ruby on Rails

    Zed Shaw has compiled a long list of suggestions on how you can get your manager to let you use Ruby on Rails for your next project. It’s full of...

  • Reading on Rails: Dissecting the inspirations

    Tim Case has started a series of entries on his blog called Reading on Rails. In this series, he examines how some of the major trends in software development, like...