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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Brian discovers the default logging goodness

    Brian McCallister started working on a new Rails application and discovered the goodness that is the default logging setup: This is sort of what using Rails is mostly like. You...

  • Using the Rails to impress potential employers

    Drew McLellan is looking for a job and what better way to demonstrate to potential employers than to show you’re keeping up with the field of web development: I like...

  • Ruby on the German Rails

    I love picking up Rails praise in a foreign language through the wonder that is Google Translate: …within fewer days it was my small Webapp finished and I a realization...

  • Rails 0.9.3: Optimistic locking, dynamic finders, 1.8.2

    Rails is now fully compatible with Ruby 1.8.2, which we advice all to upgrade to as soon as possible. It contains a year’s worth of bug fixes for Ruby, so...

  • 43things in 5,204 lines of Ruby on Rails

    Eric Hodel was so kind as to show me the output of rake stats on 43things and it revealed that it took 5,204 lines of Ruby to create the current...

  • Are you watching the health of your software?

    Kent Beck has probably been more responsible for the uptake of automated testing amongst the general developer population than any other figure over the last five years. One of the...

  • Watch for huge requests on default FCGI

    As you might have noticed, 43things have been down for the count a few times since launch with nasty 500’s. The cause was the combination of default FCGI settings and...

  • How the redesign of the website came to be

    Jakob Skjerning is sharing some additional details on what we went through creating the new uniform look for Ruby on Rails: The project was pretty interesting since we wanted to...

  • Learning Ruby on Rails with 43things

    Ruby on Rails is already going strong on 43things. Learn Ruby is #2 and Write an application on Rails is #8 according to the 43things Zeitgeist. So if you already...

  • The Robot Co-op takes 43things.com live!

    First things first: The Robot Co-op has launched 43things! Go check it out right now. It’s a portal for ambitions where you track the 43 things you currently want to...