December 27, 2008-January 2, 2009 Happy New Year! Apparently the Rails core team was not doing too much partying to end the old year: we had 35 commits hit the...
December 20-December 26, 2008 Edition The biggest change in Rails in recent memory isn’t reflected in edge Rails yet: I’m speaking, of course, about the merger of Merb into Rails...
It’s christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We’re ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3!...
We’ve just launched a mild refresh of the rubyonrails.org site. It now runs on Radiant through Passenger at Slicehost and includes a nip and tuck in various places along with...
Josh recently added Rails Metal, which has been getting a fair bit of publicity. Metal is a great piece of functionality for those rare cases where the speed of your...
December 13-December 19, 2008 Edition The Rails team hasn’t been hibernating this week: 50 commits hit the edge branch, from a variety of developers. Here’s my pick of the most...
Rails Edge adopted Rack a while back and we’ve been exploring ways to expose that better. The first thing we did was to make it really easy to hook up...
Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails has been on a tour de force lately and rightfully so. It makes Rails deployment so much simpler and combined with REE faster and with less...
I love how so many conferences are recording their sessions. Paris on Rails is another of those conferences and they’ve recently published their recordings as both video and audio. Most...
Blip.tv have published the five keynote videos from RailsConf Europe 2008. It includes Jeremy’s excellent talk on Performance on Rails and my own Living with Legacy Software. Check ’em out....