April 7, 2011
Ruby Hero Awards 2011
It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those who have impacted the Ruby community this year but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have...
April 5, 2011
Rails 3.0.6 has been released!
Hi everybody! Rails 3.0.6 has been released! Let’s get the serious business out of the way first: Rails 3.0.6 contains an important security fix! Please upgrade! Rails versions 3.0.x prior...
February 27, 2011
Rails 3.0.5 has been released!
Aaron Patterson showed us some tenderlove this week by releasing Rails 3.0.5. Have a peek at what got updated. Bugs Fixed Fix when gzip returns a UTF-8 string on Ruby...
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...