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

  • Tim O'Reilly mentions Rails at ETech

    Tim O’Reilly opened the Emerging Technology conference today with a talk on pattern remixes. Much to our delight, Tim choose to highlight Ruby on Rails during the talk. I don’t...

  • Web-Entwicklung mit Ruby on Rails

    Following the announcement of Dave Thomas’ upcoming book Agile Web Development with Rails, comes word of the first German book on Rails. It’s going to be called “Web-Entwicklung mit Ruby...

  • The deficiencies of synchronous requests

    Jamis Buck has a good examination of the problems inhibiting the use of synchronous requests in the Ajax world. Synchronous is a much easier programatically model, have worked well for...

  • \'It\'s like your programming back in Assembly\'

    Shanti A. Braford is being forced back into PHP after getting jiggy with Ruby on Rails. He’s not liking it one bit: Programming a web application in PHP feels a...

  • 'I set out to prove those Rails folks wrong'

    Steven R. Baker was “…depressed by web development”, but he also pretty sure that “…sophisticated applications wouldn’t be any easier to build with Rails”. So what did he do? He...

  • 'Broke down, saw the light, whatever you want to call it'

    Rails is certainly going through rapid improvement. Marcel Molina used to joke on #rubyonrails that he was so busy refactoring his application to take advantage of all the new goodies...

  • ruby-lang.org is getting redesigned!

    I’m exceedingly happy to see the rapid progress of the team appointed to redesign ruby-lang.org. The old website served us well, but this redesign is going to make it even...

  • Rolling on your on Ajax

    While the extraction process is happening with pulling the Ajax abstractions that work out of Honey for inclusion in Rails, you might want to take a look at Dave Goodlad’s...

  • The story behind Rails at O'Reilly

    Jason Fried from 37signals talks about the origins of Rails with Marc Hedlund from O’Reilly: Ruby on Rails is the open source web application framework we extracted from Basecamp. When...

  • Rails developer with Java chops wanted

    Jason Wong from ionami in San Francisco wants to hire a Rails developer with Java chops to help him through the transition from Java to Ruby on Rails: ionami is...