Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Get a life-time TextDrive for $399

    TextDrive is our wonderful host. They’re contributing big time to the development of Rails and are up to date with the latest (like exploring lighttpd as an Apache alternative). They’ve...

  • Installing Rails through RubyGems 3x faster!

    RubGems 0.8.5 has been released and turbo-charges the installation of new gems and updating of the repository lists. In general, it’s about three times faster than the old version. All...

  • Bruce Tate discovers Ruby on Rails

    Bruce Tate is the author of Bitter Java and Bitter EJB, so if you were just judging by the titles of those books, you may not be too surprised that...

  • Rails 0.10.0 loves lighttpd

    With the release of Rails 0.10.0, the reign of Apache has finally ended and equal opportunity for all web servers has been introduced. The most important beneficial of this is...

  • Rails for Strut-ters: Dealing with the view

    Brian McCallister is doing an excellent job showing Strut-ters how Rails work by comparing it to their own environment. In this round, he’s taking a look at the oh-horror that...

  • What if I could just use Ruby on Rails...

    Jaikoo wonders what the world would look like if he could just develop purely in a dynamic environment: One of the things I’m currently working on is this massively complex...

  • Odeo is launching on Rails

    Evan Williams (of Blogger fame) and friends have unveiled their latest venture: Odeo. It’s going to make “…it easy for you to discover, create, and subscribe to fresh, independent audio...

  • 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...