The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Nicholas Seckar makes the commit team!

    He rose through the ranks of contributors quickly with the great implementation of Routes, but has since put his mark on so much more. Including the dependency management system and...

  • Getting Things Done with Active Record

    Mike Clark has a great article on how to dig deeper into Active Record by using acts_as_nested_set and find_by_sql. On the notion of using SQL in an OO model, he...

  • Rails 0.13: 225+ features/fixes in 75 days!

    After the longest gap between releases since Rails was made public and after more than 225 fixes and new features, the final major release before the 1.0 milestone has arrived....

  • Not knowing where it hurts in ASP.NET

    Demetrius Nunes is feeling the pain of going back to maintenance on an ASP.NET project after spending considerable time in Ruby on Rails. He writes about why there might not...

  • Rolling with Ruby on Rails in Japanese

    The lovely tanabe has translated the also lovely Curt Hibbs’ excellent Rolling with Ruby on Rails article to Japanese. Great work. Both of you.