Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
March 24, 2005
Craig Walls is the coauthor of both Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action. Recently, he had “…come to the conclusion that I could not ignore Rails any longer”. This...
March 22, 2005
Apparently, Ruby-FastCGI is one leaky pipe. It’s currently happily disposing of up to 16K per request. Not particularly helpful for the long-running processes like FastCGIs. But have no fear, Kirk...
March 22, 2005
With the inclusion of Ajax helpers in Rails 0.11.0, we’ve addressed the most important concern holding back large scale Ajax use: Writing DHTML by hand. Manipulating the DOM by hand...
March 22, 2005
Let me tell you where you’re going to be on October 14th through 16th. You’re going to be in San Diego, California. That’s right. RubyConf just opened the doors for...
March 22, 2005
O’Reilly is getting on board the Rails too. Their first book is going to be the Rails Developer Notebook, which as the name suggests is part of their Developer’s Notebooks...
March 21, 2005
I’m incredibly proud to announce the third Rails book in the making. The title is “Pragmatic Rails Recipes: A Guide to Elegant Web Development” and the authors should be very...
March 20, 2005
The fifth international Ruby conference is happening in San Diego, California from October 14th until 16th. You have to come. I went last year and had the most wonderful three...
March 20, 2005
I forgot to mention that a new and much improved version of RubyGems was made available a while back. The new version makes it a lot easier to install Rails...
March 20, 2005
Getting started with Rails is terribly easy thanks to the Ruby-based web server that’s available with ./script/server. But if you want to get production level speeds, you’re going to need...
March 19, 2005
When Bruce Perens first showed up at the #rubyonrails IRC channel, we were honored by his presence. Bruce is a thought leader on free and open source software and the...