February 5, 2009
This Week in Rails 3.0
Now that Rails 2.3 has hit the release candidate phase, some of the development effort is turning to Rails 3.0. With that activity heating up, it’s time to start keeping...
February 4, 2009
Rails Guides Gets a Facelift
There’s a brand new version of Rails coming, as you already know. What better time for a new version of some of the Rails documentation? So the Rails Guides team...
February 3, 2009
Calling All Rails-Savvy Designers
One thing that has been a continuing challenge for many Rails developers is finding a good designer to work with. There are certainly plenty of fantastic designers out there, but...
February 1, 2009
Rails 2.3.0 RC1: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more!
Rails 2.3 is almost ready for release, but this package is so stock full of amazing new stuff that we’re making dutifully sure that everything works right before we call...
January 31, 2009
This Week in Edge Rails
January 24, 2009 – January 30, 2009 This week we saw 35 commits in edge Rails – though many are bug fixes and minor things. Here’s one more preview of...
January 28, 2009
Ruby / Rails Conferences
When the economy hits a downturn this typically has an immediate effect on tech conferences. Many tech conferences cannot run successfully without sponsorships, and with companies becoming more conservative with...
January 27, 2009
Autoloading ActiveResource schemas
I just committed a little feature during our Rails core hackfest in Chicago: Autoloading ActiveResource schemas. Note: this is in my personal fork that’s up to date with the rails...
January 27, 2009
Visualizing the Rails commit history
Ilya Grigorik wrote up a post on generating a code swarm visualization from git repositories. He wrote gitter to feed the git commit info for the Rails repository and feed...
January 26, 2009
Nested Model Forms
The most popular request on our new Feedback site was for the ability to easily manage multiple models in a single form. Thankfully Eloy Duran has a patch that does...
January 23, 2009
RailsConf 2009: Viva Las Vegas!
RailsConf 2009 is now open for registration. We’re going to Las Vegas this year. More precisely the Las Vegas Hilton from May 4th through 7th. It’s going to be a...