Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • ASP.NET vs Rails analysis from a veteran

    On a the topic of ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails on the ruby-talk mailing list, Christian Romney wrote a long analysis over his experience with the two. Here’s my choice...

  • 43places: Where do you want to go?

    The Robot Co-op follows up on 43things with 43places that narrows the scope from goal to destination. Record where you want to go, meet others with the same destination in...

  • Ajax on Rails

  • TextDrive seeks to sweeten control with Rails application

    TextPanel is the name of TextDrive‘s effort to modernize Webmin and the whole of branch of control panel software. They’re hard at work on it. And it’s going to be...

  • Taking Ajax higher with next Rails release

    Thomas Fuchs has been doing awesome work building on top of Prototype (the Javascript engine driving Ajax in Rails) to bring us script.aculo.us: Better effects and drag’n’drop capabilities. Together with...

  • Three new Rails jobs: NetworkChemistry, IntegralNet, Mirak

    The commercial interest for using Rails is ever growing and I keep getting leads on new jobs. Here are the latest three openings: NetworkChemistry: Looking for a Rails programmer with...

  • ODEO is trickling out the launch

    ODEO is the upcoming premier portal for podcasting shows. Whether you just want to find and listen or whether you want to create and distribute. Phillip Torrone has a mini-review...

  • Rails #3, Ruby #8 on most popular tutorials at OSCON

    Ruby on Rails: Enjoying the Ride of Programming, the tutorial I’m giving at OSCON, is the third most popular tutorial for the entire conference! As Nathan Torkington from O’Reilly writes:...

  • Designer CMS on Rails: Programmers needed!

    There are surely lots of content-management system projects happening in Rails, but are any of them that magic bullet that designers are looking for? Designer CMS on Rails is a...

  • Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails

    Word on the street is that popular webhost Dreamhost now supports Ruby on Rails. That’s great news, especially if you’re already married to DH and wants to do Ruby on...