Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Running rake tests with Ruby 1.8.2

    If you’re among the early adopters of Ruby 1.8.2, you will have noticed that rake chokes when attempting to run all the tests in a suite. Thankfully, Dave Halliday was...

  • Splitting off the research patches

    I’ve introduced the new [RESEARCH] prefix to ticket summaries in addition to the existing [PATCH]. By applying the [RESEARCH] prefix, you’re sharing a patch with the world that either needs...

  • Available for hire?

    I’m regularly getting requests from people who wants to start up Rails development, but are looking for a way to kick-start the affair by retaining one or more experts. Some...

  • Variations on a railed theme

    I’ve received quite a few alternative suggestions for a logo since we unveiled the direction Hicks was taking the identity. They all discarded the work that was going on and...

  • Rails celebrates more than 10,000 downloads

    Across all versions and distributions forms, Rails have now rounded 10,000 downloads since the first version was released just five months ago. That’s an incredible achievement for a new framework...

  • Securing your Rails: Keep it secret, keep it safe

    Andreas Schwarz has long been one of the most vocal speakers for making sure Rails could be keep the data of its applications secret and safe. So what could be...

  • Collaboa and EliteJournal joins the Trac

    Reading code written by veterans has always been one of the best ways to learn the way of the arts. And of course, so is it with Rails, which is...

  • Playing Active Records on MS SQLServer and DB2

    The work originally started by Joey Gibson on the MS SQLServer adapter around RubyConf is now finally nearing completion. The adapters have been charged with adding the LIMIT-condition and that...

  • Extracting missing content from wiki backups

    The Rails wiki has taken a few beatings, but now it’s running in high class with proper rollback protection, so we should now have a stable host to fill with...

  • Reacting to customer requests in real time

    Collaboraid recently had a visit with their client on that major intranet project for the still concealed client. Here they learned just how much of a difference it makes to...