April 8, 2009
Rails IDEs March On
Many Rails developers are perfectly happy working on their code in a text editor – and there are certainly plenty of excellent text editors out there. But others, particularly those...
April 3, 2009
This Week in Edge Rails
March 28, 2009 – April 3, 2009 Things are still fairly quiet out on the edge: 5 commits this week. The work for Rails 3.0 hasn’t been merged back to...
March 28, 2009
RailsConf interviews, presenter posts, and keynotes
RailsConf 2009 is drawing ever closer and it’s going to be one hell of a show worthy of Vegas glitz and glamour. To let you all get more familiar with...
March 27, 2009
This Week in Edge Rails
March 21, 2009 – March 27, 2009 It’s been a quiet week for Rails on the surface: just half a dozen commits over the course of the week. Behind the...
March 20, 2009
This Week in Edge Rails
March 14, 2009 – March 20, 2009 The big news in Rails this week, of course, was the release of Rails 2.3. But that certainly doesn’t mean the Rails edge...
March 19, 2009
Get Paid to Work on Rails
Last year, as you may recall, Rails got thread safety and a new core committer thanks to our participation in the Google Summer of Code program under the auspices of...
March 16, 2009
Rails 2.3: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more!
Rails 2.3 is finally done and out the door. This is one of the most substantial upgrades to Rails in a very long time. A brief rundown of the top...
March 13, 2009
This Week in Edge Rails
March 6, 2009 – March 13, 2009 Things have been pretty busy on the development side since the release of Rails 2.3 RC2. The core team has been making a...
March 11, 2009
Update on Rails Guides and Documentation
We have been working on the Rails guides for some months now. With substantial contributions from a variety of authors, things are looking even better in the next version of...
March 10, 2009
Rails Magazine #1 is Out
One of the measures of the health of a development platform is its ability to support a vibrant ecosystem of users, contributors, speakers, and authors. By this measure, Rails remains...