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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • [ANN] Rails 3.2.3 has been released!

    Rails 3.2.3 has been released!!!. IMPORTANT This release changes the default value of config.active_record.whitelist_attributes to true. This change only affects newly generated applications so it should not cause any backwards...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.2.3.rc2 has been released!

    Rails 3.2.3.rc2 has been released. IMPORTANT Rails 3.2.3 introduced a new option that allows you to control the behavior of remote forms when it comes to authenticity_token generation. If you...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.2.3.rc1 has been released!

    Rails 3.2.3.rc1 has been released. IMPORTANT This release changes the default value of config.active_record.whitelist_attributes to true. This change only affects newly generated applications so it should not cause any backwards...

  • Strong parameters: Dealing with mass assignment in the controller instead of the model

    We’re exploring a new way to deal with mass-assignment protection in Rails. Or actually, it’s not really a new way, it’s more of an extraction of established practice with some...

  • What is docrails?

    Over the years I have seen some confusion about what is exactly docrails and how it relates to the documentation of Ruby on Rails. This post explains everything you want...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.2.2 has been released!

    Rails 3.2.2 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. CHANGES For information regarding...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.1.4 has been released!

    Rails 3.1.4 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. CHANGES For information regarding...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.0.12 has been released!

    Rails 3.0.12 has been released. This release contains various bug fixes and two important security fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. CHANGES For information regarding...

  • Edge Rails: PATCH is the new primary HTTP method for updates

    What is PATCH? The HTTP method PUT means resource creation or replacement at some given URL. Think files, for example. If you upload a file to S3 at some URL,...

  • Rails 3.2.1 has been released

    Rails 3.2.1 is out, with some fixes and doc improvements. Please check the CHANGELOGs gist for details.