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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Marten opens Epilog for Trac'ing

    Alongside EliteJournal, Epilog is the other major weblog application development going on with Rails. Marten is set to release a new version running off the 0.9.x series of Rails in...

  • Drew McLellan predicts "More Rails" in 2005

    Among predictions of having a beard will be the hot thing in 2005, Mr. All in the Head highlights Rails as having an especially bright coming year: David Heinemeier Hansson’s...

  • 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...