The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Going to the good video store

    Josh C from the Eggplant Coop sent me the funniest switcher quote I’ve seen in a while: We compare moving to rails from our in-house perl web framework to the...

  • Verifying encoding approach to Action Mailer

    If you’re deep into all the RFCs on email, we’d like your help ensuring that the latest approach to encoding with Action Mailer is sound. We’re going for an approach...

  • Brian McCallister to be preset Rails at ApacheCon

    Under the session title of Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails, Brian McCallister will be presented at ApacheCon Europe 2005. The session will...

  • Rails 0.11.1: More Ajax, Verifications, SQL Server updated, loads of fixes

    The Ajax wave is sweeping across Rails. In this release, we’ve added a :position option to both link_to_remote and form_remote_tag that can be set to either :before, :top, :bottom, or...

  • eXPlain Project Management Tool

    eXtreme Programming and Ruby on Rails is a wonderful fit. Besides the most excellent support for test-driven development, XP works a whole lot better when your code base is so...

  • Rapid adoption of Rails as documented by ML and IRC

    If you should have any doubts that Rails is experiencing rapid adoption, consider this graph plotting the number of messages per day (as a raising average, high mark was 141...

  • IE5/5.5 compatibility wizard wanted

    Do you know how to make Javascript work for IE5/5.5? We’d love to get some help making the new Javascript helpers as compatible as possible. So if you got the...

  • New patch for FastCGI original exceptions

    It would seem that I linked to an old patch for getting the original exception bubbled on a FastCGI crash. The old patch just raised FCGI System Error and not...

  • Another pair of ThoughtWorkers pick up Rails

    Obie Fernandez and Carlos Villela are ThoughtWorkers following the lead of other company programmers, like Aslak (who’s getting DamageControl on Rails) and John Wilkers, in exploring Rails further. And while...

  • Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest

    While Ruby is usually praised as being one of the most readable programming languages around, it’s certainly also possibly to make it obfuscated. It just takes a good dose of...