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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Off the Treadmill, Onto the Rails

    Mike Clark, author of Pragmatic Project Automation, caught up with me for a few quick questions about the automation of Rails. A snippet: Mike: Everybody who tries Rails raves about...

  • Rails 0.9.5: A world of fixes and tweaks

    This release is mostly about polishing the Rails by closing holes, deficiencies, and subtle extensions to existing features. The long-awaited Directions and generator upgrade have been postponed to the next...

  • Pedrosa on Rails vs WebWork: 'Language DOES matter'

    Joao Pedrosa has been using both Rails and WebWork and iterates five key points on why “…WW is clearly inferior to Rails in every aspect” before arriving at the following...

  • 'Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good'

    Daryl discovers Ruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good. It’s too good to be true almost… Quite honestly, in an afternoon I built a completely working web application...