February 8, 2011
CSRF Protection Bypass in Ruby on Rails
There is a vulnerability in Ruby on Rails which could allow an attacker to circumvent the CSRF protection provided. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE Identifier CVE-2011-0447. Versions Affected:...
February 8, 2011
New Releases: 2.3.11 and 3.0.4
Two new versions of Ruby On Rails have been released today. As well as including a number of bugfixes they contain fixes for some security issues. The full details of...
January 18, 2011
Conferences for 2011
One of the reasons the Ruby and Rails community is so strong and passionate is because of the awesome regional conferences that happen all around the globe on a yearly...
November 18, 2010
Rails for Zombies
This morning my team over at Envy Labs released a free online tutorial called Rails for Zombies. The website combines screencasts with in-browser coding to provide an interactive learning experience...
November 15, 2010
Rails 3.0.3: Faster Active Record plus fixes
How about some free speed? Well, here you go. Rails 3.0.3 includes a much faster version of Active Record that reclaims the performance lost when we went from Rails 2.3.x...
October 15, 2010
Security Vulnerability in Nested Attributes code in Ruby On Rails 2.3.9 and 3.0.0
There is a vulnerability in the nested attributes handling code in some versions of Ruby on Rails. An attacker could manipulate form parameters and make changes to records other than...
October 14, 2010
charity:water thanks the Rails community
Thank you, Ruby on Rails community, from Central African Republic. We raised almost $40,000. Enough for 1,800 people to get clean water. What an amazing achievement. Thanks to everyone who...
September 21, 2010
RubyAndRails 2010
RubyEnRails returns this year bigger and better as RubyAndRails 2010, running from 21-22 October in Amsterdam. Talks are in English and entry is just €149,00. The speaker lineup is shaping...
September 9, 2010
Santiago Pastorino joins Rails Core
It’s my pleasure to announce that Santiago Pastorino has joined the Rails Core group. Santiago only started contributing to Rails this year, but has been on fire ever since his...
September 4, 2010
Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 Released
We’ve released Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 (gem and git tag) to extend the 2.3.8 bridge a few steps closer to Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9. If your app runs on...