The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • A peek at the additional Ajaxing coming in 0.11.2

    The pursuit of Ajax nirvana with Rails is marching ahead with breath-taking haste. Thomas Fuchs has compiled a demonstration page of all the effects that we’ve added to the package....

  • Allowing developers to use the tools they love

    Hank Roar is the customer on a project being developed by ThoughtWorker Obie. He’s quite pleased with the progress: Never under estimate the importance of allowing developers to use the...

  • Snippets meets tagging

    Peter Cooper has just launched Snippets. It’s a paste site that injects the wonderful idea of tagging into the mix. Peter announced it with: Less than two days ago I...

  • Another Rails consultant breaks out on his own

    Congratulations to Scott Barron for pursuing the life of the independent consultant. Especially so, of course, because he’ll be doing it as a Ruby on Rails specialist. We already have...

  • HTTP Authentication with Action Pack

    If form-based authentication is a bad fit for your application, you might consider using good old HTTP authentication. It’s really easy too. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Coders shows you...

  • Typo gets prettier URLs, Ajax, AWS, cheap hosting

    Tobias Lütke’s blogging engine Typo is storming ahead with good stuff lately. He recently implemented even-prettier URLs and Ajaxed the comments section. Now Patrick Lenz has brought the web service...

  • Rails rides to Finland

    Jarkko Laine is spreading the good word of Rails all around Finland. He’s doing a guest lecturer about Rails at Tampere University of Technology and he just spotted a nice...

  • Using Gettext to translate your Rails application

    Sacha Ebach shows you how to deal with multi-lingual applications in Using Gettext to translate your Rails application. It’s a complete guide talking about what tools you need, the structure...

  • Jon Udell discovers Ruby on Rails

    Jon Udell discovers Ruby on Rails and shows special affection for Active Record in Separating code from its environment: I’ve only scratched the surface of Ruby, but when I recently...

  • Addressing "bogus statements" about Rails

    Xavier Defrang has been following the heated arguments about Rails for some time and got fed up with a bunch of “…bogus statements (FUD?) and issues raised in the TSS...