The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Three Ruby on Rails programmers needed in London

    Sean O’Halpin is advertising on the Rails mailing list for three Ruby on Rails programmers for work in central London, UK. Here’s the short pitch: I am looking for 3...

  • Future Mail: Email yourself tomorrow!

    Ben Sinclair has launched a pretty cool little application called FutureMail to email yourself at some specified time in the future to remind you about stuff. For people who use...

  • Rails application walk-through by Scott Baron

    Scott Baron is walking through the process of creating an application “…used by a university cable television station to manage and generate schedules for their movie channels”. He’s doing it...

  • Florian Weber launches bellybutton.de

    Hot on the heels of Snowdevil, Florian Weber has completed the work to relaunch German e-tailer of pregnancy.. uhm stuff.. bellybutton. The shop is part a CMS for the company...

  • Joe Agliozzo is looking for a Rails developer

    Joe Agliozzo is looking to hire a Rails developer for a freelance project to work on an application that will “…allow users to post local restaurants, shops, attractions etc. to...