Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Agile Web Development with Rails in July

    It has been made official. The title of the first Rails book is going to be Agile Web Development with Rails and its currently being written by Dave Thomas. A...

  • Scratch: The minimalist's weblog

    Scratch is a very interesting weblog package by Scott Barron (and with help from Sam Stephenson) that shuns any HTML interface: Scratch is the minimalist’s web log. Scratch gives you...

  • Rails 0.10 on lighttpd without scaffolding video

    Matt Moriarity has managed to do something I’ve been pledging for a long time: Record an updated video for Rails 0.10 using lighttpd and not“cheating” by using scaffolding. Very cool....