The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Install lighttpd through DarwinPorts

    DarwinPorts is a great package manager for OS X and lighttpd is a great web server to run Rails from. Now, match the two: Installing Lighttpd on Mac OS X...

  • Slashdotted: Agile Web Development with Rails

    As the 6th Slashdotting of Rails comes a review of the Agile Web Development with Rails book. It’s written from the perspective of a PHP programmer who’s coming to terms...

  • Where should the Rails Bootcamp go?

    Dave Thomas and Mike Clark are gearing up to run a series of Rails Bootcamps in the Fall. The idea is to take someone who haven’t been doing any Rails...

  • FastCGI gem is now safe as 0.8.6

    The FastCGI gem was stranded at 0.8.5 for a while, which of course included a nasty memory leak. Thanks to Tobias, it’s now up to date as 0.8.6. Just do...

  • Four Days on Rails updated for 0.12.1

    The much lauded Four Days on Rails tutorial has been updated to reflect the changes to the framework since its initial release. So if you’re just getting started, or just...