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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • 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!