The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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....

  • Odeo launched to the public

    Odeo is a portal for finding, syncing, and creating podcasts. It’s might neat and of course it’s mighty Rails. Congratulations to the team for finally making the jump into the...

  • Get your Rails swag and wear here!

    Bill Katz has setup a Cafepress shop for Rails swag and wear that features our wavy railroad tracks on the back and a discrete Ruby on Rails wording on the...

  • Are you running the final version of Ruby 1.8.2?

    A fair number of people have been having problems with Rails 0.13 because it relies on behavior present in the final version of Ruby 1.8.2. That’s the one released on...

  • What's with this DoubleRenderError?

    Another haunting feature of 0.13 is the DoubleRenderError. Jamis explains it purpose: In order to understand why the DoubleRenderError was necessary, you need to understand something about the render and...

  • Feeling the slowdown blues after going 0.13?

    It’s somewhat ironic that we heralded Rails 0.13 as being a great move forward for the performance of Rails and then half the threads on the mailing list is about...