The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Ruby on Rails 2.3.7 Released

    With the 2.3.6 release hot out of the oven, Nathan Weizenbaum began updating HAML to support it. He uncovered a couple of bugs in the HTML-safety changes backported from Rails...

  • Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 Released

    We’ve released Ruby on Rails 2.3.6: six months of bug fixes, a handful of new features, and a strong bridge to Rails 3. We deprecated some obscure and ancient features...

  • Community Highlights

    It’s that time again, to summarize a few interesting Rails links to highlight some of the best of the community. All of these were initially covered on the Ruby5 Podcast,...

  • Rails 3.0: Third beta release

    We’re marching towards the release candidates with hurried steps, but along the way we stopped by for another beta. This one spins out a few overdue extractions into plugins (see...

  • Rails 3.0: Second beta release

    It took longer than we thought, but then again, what doesn’t? This is the second beta release of Rails 3.0 and hopefully our last stop before a release candidate. There...

  • Learn About Rails 3's Fantastic New Router

    Rizwan Reza recently wrote a post about many of the new features in Rails 3’s router. The changes are significant and, in one fell swoop, moot many of the routing...

  • Ruby Hero Awards 2010

    It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those people who have impacted Ruby community but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have given away...

  • Rails and the Enterprise

    If you have been in the Rails community for a little while, you have more than likely noticed the love/hate relationship that is entertained by the community vis-à-vis the Enterprise....

  • Ruby Summer of Code

    Rails participated in Google’s summer of code program for the first time last year. We got four great projects and three long-term contributors from the effort, including Josh Peek and...

  • Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010

    There are an incredible amount of Ruby & Rails conferences coming up in the next 6 months. See below to find one in your neck of the woods. March 11-12...