The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • BARRA seeks Rails developer

    MSCI Barra is looking for a developer that preferably is already up-to-speed with Ruby on Rails or at least interested in getting it. It’s pretty darn cool to see a...

  • The rise of lighttpd as the alternative web server

    Apache has long appeared to be the only viable show in town for your Rails’ web serving needs when it comes to running a production system. Of course, there has...

  • Natural selection for frameworks in Ruby vs Java

    Dion Almer is pondering the difference in how the Ruby and Java communities have dealt with natural selection in web-application frameworks. About Rails, he writes: There were various web frameworks...

  • Snowdevil: First e-tailer on Rails

    I’m proud to announce the launch of the first e-tailer to go life with Rails Inside: Snowdevil. Especially so because the team behind it has core contributor Tobias Luekte at...

  • When longer is better and more is more

    The father of Java, James Gosling, is traveling the down under and has some.. erhm.. “interesting” thoughts on scripting languages. I’m getting these sound bytes from Alan Fracis’ summary of...

  • Address book tutorial in Portuguese

    Learn how to build an address book using Rails. Or, learn to read Portuguese, then learn how to build that address book. Regardless of whether you need step two of...

  • Sarah Wedde has named and subversioned Tentacle

    The weblogging system powering Sarah Wedde’s ever funny One Before has been baptized Tentacle and made available through SVN. I didn’t even know. Yet another example for people to learn...

  • Becoming a better programmer with Rails

    Justin French have survived the first week on his transitionary journey from PHP to Rails. I have special sympathy for refugees from that camp as I used to do a...

  • Really Getting Started in Rails

    Amy Hoy is a designer, programmer, and writer digging into Rails. She read Curt Hibbs’ great introduction article on Rails at O’Reilly’s OnLAMP, but decided she’d like to decorate it...

  • 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby

    Jim Weirich is introducing Ruby to XP Cincinnati next week and would like to know which ten things would be most important for Java programmers to get about Ruby. He...