The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Working professionally with Rails?

    We’re trying to get a sense of who and where people are doing commercial work with Rails. So is the framework paying at least a substantial part of your bills?...

  • Productize your application from a common base

    Duane Johnson has a great how-to on productizing your application. Which basically means that you have a core application that you need to tailor ever so slightly for each customer....

  • Integrating Wee components in Rails applications

    Michael Neumann has released a new version of Wee, which allows for integration of its components with Rails applications. He wrote up a small tutorial on how to do it...

  • Convincing those CxO's to see beyond Struts

    Matt Raible hopes to become a Ruby on Rails developer, but has doubts on how exactly he’s going to convince CxO’s to see beyond Struts. Matt recognizes that it’s not...

  • Comparing J2EE and Rails on developerWorks

    Aaron Rustad, Technical Architect for Anassina, has written Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Is there room for both? for IBM’s developerWorks. It compares Rails with Struts and show the power...

  • EPSON chooses Rails for developer site

    Jason Wong of ionami has announced that they’ve just launched epsondevelopers.com for EPSON on a Rails platform: ionami has been working with EPSON for over 3 years. While we created...

  • Podcasting all over the Rails

    Scott Barron has taken Ruby on Rails on the air. Listen to the Ruby on Rails Podcast: On the show we will delve deep into the warped psyches of the...

  • Rails 0.13.1: Faster for all, eager limits, more Ajax

    We’ve returned the default MySQL/Ruby bindings to their former glory, made sure development mode on big applications didn’t get penalized on resetting the object space, and cut WEBricks lust to...

  • Compiling the MySQL C-bindings under Tiger

    OS X 10.4 Tiger ships with GCC 4.0, which not all software is ready to accept a compilation by. The MySQL C-bindings is such a piece of software, so before...

  • Mike Rundle redesigns the header

    Mike Rundle didn’t like the header of this site and with the alternative he came up with, we don’t blame him. The new look is decidedly nicer than boring black-on-yellow....