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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Potential XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails Applications

    The XSS prevention support in recent versions Ruby on Rails allows some string operations which, when combined with user supplied data, may leave an ‘unsafe string’ incorrectly considered safe. It...

  • News from the Documentation Front

    New Configuration Guide Rails 3.1 will come with a new comprehensive guide about configuring Rails applications written by Ryan Bigg (@ryanbigg). The current draft is already available in the edge...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.0.8.rc3 (third time is the charm!)

    Hey everybody! I’ve pushed Rails 3.0.8.rc3. Hopefully this release candidate takes care of all the outstanding issues remaining. To see what has changed between 3.0.8.rc2 and 3.0.8.rc3, check out this...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.0.8.rc2

    Hey folks! I’ve pushed 3.0.8.rc2. I want to give a big thanks to Philip Arndt and Robert Pankowecki for reporting regressions in 3.0.8.rc1! We’ve fixed the regressions, so I pushed...

  • [ANN] Rails 3.0.8.rc1

    ZOMG HI EVERYBODY!!!! HAPPY WEDNESDAY (UTC-7). I am EXCITED, PLEASED, and even MORE EXCITED to announce the release of the Rails 3.0.8 released candidate NUMBER ONE! OMG RELEASE CANDIDATE. WHAT...

  • Rails 3.1: Release candidate

    As I promised at RailsConf, we’re finally good to go on the Rails 3.1: Release Candidate. This is a fantastically exciting release. We have three new star features and an...

  • Rails 3.1 beta 1 released

    We’ve taken our first release step towards the final version of Rails 3.1 today with the unveiling of beta 1. This is a release mostly for people who’ve already been...

  • jQuery: New Default

    In Rails 3.1 jQuery is going to be the default JavaScript library. Also, RJS has been extracted out. This post explains what that means for new applications, and what to...

  • Rails 3.0.7 has been released!

    Hello everyone! I’ve released Rails version 3.0.7! I want to say thanks to Santiago for handling the release candidate gems. He’s on vacation, so I get to do the real...

  • Why HTTP Streaming?

    Rails 3.1 is going to support HTTP streaming, aka chunked responses, this post explains what’s all about. What Is HTTP Streaming? Ordinary dynamic HTTP responses need a Content-Length header. Their...