The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Article on Rails in German iX Magazine

    Ralf Wirdemann and Thomas Baustert are relentlessly pushing Ruby on Rails in Germany. Besides working on the Web-Entwicklung mit Ruby on Rails book, they will be presenting at XP-Days Germany,...

  • Calling SAP models from Rails

    SAP is one of the ERP behemoths that dominates in the enterprise world. Pretty far removed from Rails? Not really, it turns out. Piers Harding has written a great article...

  • Jason Hunter explains Java's Dilemma

    Jason Hunter explains in an article called The Innovator’s Dilemma: It’s Happening to Java why there’s such a big interest in Ruby on Rails from the big Java thinkers like...

  • SwitchTower: Automating Application Deployment

    As the 37signals applications have scaled up to run on multiple servers, we needed a better way to manage the deployment phase. We wanted to automate that all six servers...

  • VitalSource: Book store with native app in Rails

    James Duncan Davidson and Mike Clark has delivered on their first large, commercial Rails project together: VitalSource Bookshelf. It’s a book store that aims to make it as easy to...

  • Augmenting CSS with variables and more

    Scott Barron is toying with the idea of a rcss format that would allow you to specify your CSS file in Ruby. Why would you ever want to do that?...

  • What are symbols all about?

    In case you’re wondering with it’s :controller => "weblog" and not just "controller" => "weblog", you want to read Kevin Clark’s Understanding Ruby Symbols. It gives a number of angles...

  • Geary makes the Java jaws drop on Rails demo

    David Geary has moved into the Rails café and is now spending a considerable amount of time telling others about this place. Most recently, he did just that again at...

  • Rails jobs aplenty: Six new open positions!

    The Rails job market continues to pick up pace. Here are a total of six new positions open for developers ready to leave the old world behind and join the...

  • Strongspace: Secure file storage by TextDrive

    Strongspace is a smashing new Rails-powered service from TextDrive. Their pick-up line goes as follows: Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file...