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

  • Fourth podcast with Jamis Buck interview

    The fourth Ruby on Rails podcast was released yesterday. It’s an interview with Rails core and committer Jamis Buck conducted by Geoffrey Grosenbach. If you haven’t already signed up for...

  • The pragmatic approach to Rails adoption

    In stark contrast to Panda, Dave Thomas presents the pragmatic approach to deciding between J2EE and Ruby on Rails. Using the full might of a J2EE stack to write a...

  • Oracle, Java Panda says LAMP doesn't scale

    There was a time where I would have jumped in and attempted to educate a guy like Debu Panda. Now it’s more of a comical relief. Like when old people...

  • Matz manages Ruby team through Basecamp

    Matz, the creator of Ruby, has signed up for a Basecamp account to help the committers team collaborate on the development of Ruby. What an honor. Note, the intentions are...

  • Ruby on Rails article in German Javamagazin

    Ralf and Thomas has had their second article on Ruby on Rails published. This time its the German Javamagazin that even featured a highlight of the article on the cover....

  • ThoughtWorks is hiring for Rails down under

    ThoughtWorks is hiring people with design and development skills in Ruby on Rails in three cities down under: Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney. I met with their CEO and a select...

  • How to integrate FCKEditor and Rails

    The DHTML-based WYSIWYG-editors are getting better and better. In the lead pack in the FCKEditor and Joshua M. Charles has just written a brief article on how easy it is...

  • 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")...