The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Should I learn Perl with Maypole, or Ruby on Rails?

    Ben Hammersley was debating with himself in public whether to dive into Ruby on Rails or stay with his trusty Perls and pick up on Maypole: Should I learn Perl...

  • Rails 0.10.1: FCGI stability, WS generator, tons of fixes

    This is the point release to tie up the various loose ends introduced with Rails 0.10.0. Action Web Service has seen the most interesting improvements feature-wise with a new generator...

  • Rails is the #1 gem with 20K+ downloads

    Rails has now assumed the #1 gem spot with 20,801 downloads at the time of writing. Just in front of Rake, which have long had a solid lead as a...

  • Rails praise from around the web

    The latest article by Curt Hibbs and the excellent Four Days with Rails are working wonders to attracting new people to Rails. Here are some of the snippets from people...

  • Rails Noise: Blogging the learning process

    Tim Germer is learning Rails and liking it so much that he decided to start a blog about the experience. And such was Rails Noise born. As background for his...

  • Rails makes the cover of Slashdot again

    There’s nothing like an O’Reilly article to get you on the cover of Slashdot. Curt Hibbs is once again the man for writing a great article that boosts awareness about...

  • Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2

    Curt Hibbs has invaded O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com once more to follow up on his hugely popular (and Slashdot linked) article Rolling with Ruby on Rails. In this second part, he expands...