Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • New book coming: Pragmatic Rails Recipes

    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...

  • Fifth International Ruby Conference

    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...

  • RubyGems 0.8.8 with better dependency management

    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...

  • Installnig FastCGI for Rails on OS X

    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...

  • Bruce Perens' glowing ode to Rails

    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...

  • Bla-bla List: Cloning a Rails app in RIFE

    Geert Bevin gets an A+ for trying, no doubt about that. In an attempt to hold the fort for Java as the troops are deserting left and right, Geert went...

  • 'Ruby on Rails hurts developer productivity'

    I tried to warn him, but he wouldn’t listen. Jakob Skjerning, who helped redesign rubyonrails.com and whom I worked with on Daily Rush, has been sucked into the Rails vortex:...

  • Ruby on Rails tops the Buzz Game

    Yahoo! Research Labs has a pretty cool new app out making markets out of buzz called Buzz Game. It uses the Yahoo search engine to identify hot topics and assigns...

  • Ruby on Rael

    You may be afraid, very afraid: Ruby on Rael (That would be IBM’s Sam Ruby on O’Reilly’s Rael Dornfest)

  • Ruby Weekly News is alive

    Keeping up with the flow of ruby-talk can easily become quite a job, so why not have someone do it for you and just bring you the highlights? That’s exactly...