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

  • Comparing Struts to Action Pack/Railties

    Nicholas Mommaerts is a Java programmer that “…spend[s] 8 hours a day programming with Struts in a big company”. After becoming interested enough in Rails to do his blog in...

  • Jamis Buck presents Rails at Utah JUG

    Jamis Buck did a presentation of Rails for the Utah Java Users Group two nights ago. He has made the entire show available online including the Terminal videos used to...

  • Scott Baron explains how to use validations

    Another installment in Scott Baron’s series “Rails Application Walk-through” today. This time he’s tackling the use of validations by utilizing both the built-in ones and a couple of custom validations....

  • Nearing a tipping point for LAMP with Rails

    Tom Purl believes we’re getting near a tipping point for LAMP in the enterprise and that the missing piece, “…this bridge appears to be Ruby on Rails”: So in addition...

  • Commercial training in Rails

    Tobias Luekte has had great success introducing newcomers to Rails. He provides tutoring sessions with hand-holding, sing-alongs, and all that good stuff that makes you really get what’s going on...

  • Jamis Buck joins 37signals as full-time employee

    37signals completed the hire of its second full-time employee today: Jamis Buck. We’re really happy to see Jamis join us to further our suite of Ruby on Rails-based products and...

  • Installing Lighttpd 1.3.10 on OSX

    Johan Sørensen has put together a great guide for getting lighttpd 1.3.10 running on OS X. All the steps needed to have lighttpd serving a FCGI-powered application. This is particularly...

  • Tobias sets up Trac for Typo

    Tobias Luekte has set up a Trac site for his Typo weblog engine. Typo has a slew of neat features including: XML-RPC backend implementing the metaweblog api. MarsEdit and other...

  • Routing manual in the works and example routing files

    Nicholas has started a manual to explain what Routing in Rails is all about and how you use it. It’s still very much a work in progress, but its an...

  • Routing now available in beta gems

    Routing is the new name for what was previously known as Directions. The move of responsibility from mod_rewrite and into Rails. This project is now good enough to have moved...