The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Moved to a brand new dedicated server

    The terror reign of intermittent MySQL errors has ended. We moved to a brand new dedicated server this morning thanks once again to the kind crew at TextDrive. UPDATE: The...

  • O'Reilly's CTO praises Rails to the chocolate skies

    Rael Dornfest seems to be having a chocolate good time digging into the crunchy Rails. As the Chief Technology Officer at O’Reilly Media, he certainly has a good touch with...

  • Scaling the productivity gains on larger projects

    Evan Rabble is the lead developer on the forthcoming podcasting portal Odeo. He’s being working with Rails for some time now and has just done a write-up on how the...

  • Reasonable expectations on a $12 plan

    It’s great to see so many Railers sign up with TextDrive. They’re a great host and I’m happy to be associated with them. But unfortunately, it appears that there’s some...

  • Production Log Analyzer: Find slow pages

    Eric Hodel has released the Production Log Analyzer: The Production Analyzer lets you find out which pages on your site are dragging you down. pl_analyze requires the use of SyslogLogger...

  • 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...