The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Beta book: Agile Web Development with Rails

    The first Rails book is out — in beta. Agile Web Development with Rails is not scheduled to hit hardcopy before early August, but people need the information now. What...

  • Setting up continuous integration with CIA

    CIA is a low-fi continuous integration server dedicated to testing Rails applications. It’s less than 100 lines of code and very ugly. Thus, it has been somewhat of a well-kept...

  • David Siegel wants to build his film app in Rails

    David Siegel has been working on an interesting database for the structure of films: Some people know me as a type designer, a web designer, an entrepreneur, author, or public...

  • Odeo is hiring another Rails developer

    I didn’t line them all up for this, I swear. But Rails positions are just emerging from everywhere. Today its the imminent podcasting venture know as Odeo that’s looking for...

  • More Rails jobs: Adaptive Path, Check Giant

    Adaptive Path is in need of some extra talent, writes Michael Buffington: If you’re interested in a pretty aggressive project and you’re good with Ruby on Rails, drop me a...

  • Mashing up a Rails app with Google Maps

    ListSomething.com can help you find a place to live and does so by running Ruby on Rails with a hook into Google Maps. It’s pretty neat. Remixing it, baby.

  • Rails job for Hollywood streaming application

    Now don’t tell me there’s no glitz or glamour working with Rails. Tom Wolf from World of Wonder is looking to hire a Rails programmer to build a video delivery...

  • Learn Portuguese from a Rails application

    Tim Case has recently launched theVerbalizer. It’s a learning tool for getting into Portuguese using a method of remembering verbs as the prime driver. Very cool stuff. Especially so for...

  • Rails article in Infoweek.ch (German)

    Jens-Christian Fischer has written an article about Ruby on Rails for Infoweek.ch and they’ve granted him permission to distribute the PDF of it from his blog. It’s all in German,...

  • Three open Rails positions

    It’s a great time to have skills with Ruby on Rails. People are dying to hire you: Illanti Industries: Canadian Development company looking for a junior-intermediate RoR developer (read: inexpensive)...