The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • New Rails movie with sound and sugar

    The original Rails movie left jaws hanging and had developers all over the world stepping through it in slow motion to take it all in. But that was then. Rails...

  • Ruby on Rails at Java Forum Stuttgart

    Thomas Baustert and Ralf Wirdemann are working on the German book for Ruby on Rails and they’re also spreading the word around the country. Two days ago they did the...

  • Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson forms Ionist

    Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson are both core developers of Rails and has been riding the express since the very first release of the framework. In that time, they’ve delivered...

  • Tim O'Reilly: 'Rails has taking the world by storm'

    Tim O’Reilly responds to a concerned programmer that is pondering the relevance of Perl in the face of competition from PHP, Python, and the statics .NET/J2EE. Tim concurs that other...

  • Agile Web Development with Rails leaves beta

    Our very first book on Rails is leaving beta and is in the process of going into print. Agile Web Development with Rails is now ready in its final form...