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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails 0.10.0 is a Ruby 1.8.2 framework

    It’s time to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.2, folks. Rails 0.10.0 includes various bits that require this version of Ruby, so if you want to run the latest Rails, you’ll have...

  • Joyent seeks 4 developers with Rails experience

    David Young from the San Francisco start-up Joyent are looking for 4 developers with Rails experience: We’re looking for four exceptional people, they should have deep experience writing good GUI...

  • Rails 0.10.0: Routing, Web Services, Components, Oracle

    We’re plowing through the road map at lightning speed with the release of Rails 0.10.0. There’s so much good stuff in here this time it’s really hard to pick just...

  • 'They won't ever fit together like Rails'

    Matt Grayson is another Python programmer that despite his love for Python “…haven’t done much Python lately”. He blames Rails, which he declares “…is worth the hype.”. On the prospect...

  • Extracting UML diagrams from Rails source

    Schubert has been working on a program that’ll extract a UML diagram from your Rails application. On his weblog, Schubert has an example of how it looks right now with...

  • Soo many quotes, so little space

    Xavier Defrang characterizes himself as a “…a frustrated Python-lover writing object-oriented PHP code”. He has contributed to the O’Reilly Python Cookbook and initiated the french translation of Dive Into Python....

  • Twelve routing examples from Elite Journal

    Scott Baron explains the twelve routing rules that connects his Elite Journal weblogging system. Routing is the mod_rewrite replacement coming in Rails 0.10.

  • Understanding Model-View-Control

    Rails is built upon the foundation of a model-view-control split of responsibilities. The MVC pattern can be quite bewildering if you’re coming from procedural PHP, other non-OOP environments, or are...

  • Components are coming to Rails

    Despite my recent case against high-level components, I do find low-to-medium level components useful when restricted within a narrow context. I could easily foresee abstracting some of the stuff in...

  • Benchmark reports coming to Rails

    Florian Weber has been working on his benchmark extension to test/unit for quite a while, but real life got in the way with the development of Bellybutton. He’s now making...