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

  • 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...

  • 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...