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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Craig Walls: 'Honestly, I'm quite impressed'

    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...

  • Patching Ruby-FastCGI for leaks and exceptions

    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...

  • Rails 0.11.0: Ajax, Pagination, Non-vhost, Incoming mail

    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...