Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • 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...