The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 'These folks have their priorities all wrong'

    Brian McCallister is frustrated that Ruby on Rails is taking away his joyful life as a tool smith. Always creating new libraries and frameworks. Now with all that stuff taken...

  • \'You\'re probably sick of hearing this\'

    Luke Sutton can’t help but share his recent discovery: OK look, I don’t wanna seem like a total fan-boy and I know the hype has been almost too much. I...

  • Rails Day winners have been found

    The 24 hours allotted to create an interesting Rails application from scratch yielded a ton of create entries to Rails Day. The three winners have now been declared, along with...

  • 'Agile development seems natural'

    Joe O’Brien is teaching Ruby on Rails to the consultants at his company and is especially enjoying how the language and framework two-pack makes agile development so natural: Ruby and...

  • Ruby on Rails running on a Zaurus PDA

    From our Japanese friends comes a great series of pictures showing Ruby on Rails running on the Zaurus PDA! Rails has gone mobile, baby. That’s pretty darn cool. In a...

  • Rico does scrolling table on top of Prototype

    Sam Stephenson and I met the Sabre team at the O’Reilly/Adaptive Path Ajax Summit a few months back. Their presentation of a scrolling table was part of their very nice...

  • 'Rails is one of those economy changing tools'

    Pelle from Stake Ventures augments Joe Kraus’ It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur with the notion that on top of cheaper hardware and free infrastructure, we also have...

  • Ruby on Rails making inroads in corporate America

    Bank of America must surely be the archetypical corporate America company. The kind that puts the e, n, t, e, r, p, r, i, s, and e in Enterprise. Ruby...

  • Going from ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails

    Michael Buffington from Adaptive Path talks about his experience going from ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails. Here’s a choice bit: I’d say it took me less than 10 hours to...

  • Two more Rails jobs: C3 MediaGroup, Sprout

    Another set of companies looking to hook up with Rails developers: C3 MediaGroup: Looking for e-commerce web app development and OOP/Ruby/Rails experience to develop an ecommerce component for our site...