The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Apple makes note of Ruby on Rails

    On the Apple Developer site, there’s a new article about open-source scripting languages and how you can use Xcode to work with them. On Ruby, they note: Ruby is gaining...

  • Rails father named "best hacker"

    As most of you have probably read on his weblog, David Heinemeier Hansson have been named “best hacker” by Google and O’Reilly. Congratulations, David!

  • Sparklines for Ruby on Rails

    Geoff Grosenbach has implemented a really cool Sparklines library for Ruby that even ships with helpers for Rails. A few examples: Pie—Shows a single percentage Smooth—Shows continuous data Area—Highlights data...

  • The Rails wiki returns, plans for Madeleine replacement

    The Rails wiki has returned in a trimmed form that abandoned all the previous revisions in order to make Madeleine cope with the pressure. We’ve surely pressed the backend far...

  • Calming Anil Dash's concerns of shiny technology

    Anil Dash from Six Apart is worried that Blinksale is getting attention for all the wrong reasons. That just because it’s using Ruby on Rails, features snappy Ajax, and is...

  • Reusing parts of database.yml with YAML trick

    The RedHanded _why features a neat YAML trick today that lets you reuse parts of the database.yml configuration file. So instead of specifying the same login over in all three...

  • Blinksale: Do your Rails invoices in a Rails app

    Now that you’ve made it out of the ghetto and joined the hundreds of professional Rails programmers making a living enjoying your work life, you’ll need an invoice system to...

  • Recho looking for help in San Diego, CA

    Recho “…is a new way to discover and recommend music, movies, and other media” and the team behind are looking for Ruby on Rails developers to help them build it....

  • Rails book captures #23xx in sales rank on Amazon!

    Despite the book being available in PDF form and as a bundle from the publisher directly, Amazon is still ringing up a bunch of orders for the forthcoming Agile Web...

  • Deliver better and enjoy more for the same amount

    Spin Technologies traded in their ASP.NET/C# tools for a fresh set of Ruby on Rails to develop part of their Tasting Australia site. They liked the experience: Well, in the...