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

  • 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...

  • Swiss InfoWeek looking for Rails writers

    Editor Andreas Ahlenstorf would like to print an article on Rails in the Swiss IT magazine InfoWeek: I’m looking for somebody who would like to write an article about Ruby...

  • Collective Prose: Picture a coffee shop..

    Vinu Murugesan just launched a Collective Prose. A pretty interesting application for experimenting with collaborative writing: Collective Prose is a place “where you can share your thoughts, learn new things,...

  • Let's Ajax, baby!

    Just a heads-up. Honey, the next application from 37signals, is using a lot of Ajax techniques to get a spiffy and responsive interface. I’m already well underway in the process...

  • The power of readable metaprogramming

    Oliver Steele is Chief Software Architect at Laszlo Systems and he’s digging into Ruby on Rails: During my last vacation it took about five lazy vacation days with Ruby on...

  • Codepaste.org will rise from the ashes

    Bruce Williams is promising the return of codepaste.org, which used to be the preferred paste site in #rubyonrails before it went away. For a long time. But now it’s coming...

  • Picking platforms based on performance

    Chris Petrilli talks about the delusions of grandeur that lots of programmers indulge in when they pick an environment based on performance concerns: Write in whatever language you feel most...

  • Tobias updates Hieraki, Typo, and more

    Tobias Luekte has been a busy bee lately. In his week worth of updates, he writes about updating Hieraki and Typo to Rails 0.10 and a bunch of goodies for...

  • Ease of development, speed of execution, pick two

    Justin Gehtland has been working on an application using the Java/Spring/Hibernate/JSTL stack for about 5 months. He started redoing it in Rails as an experiment and found something surprising: I’ve...