The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core

    Please give a warm welcome to José Valim and Carl Lerche as they both join the Rails core team. Both guys have been key contributors to the Rails 3 development...

  • Plugin Authors: Toward a Better Future

    Some of the biggest changes in Rails 3 involve how Rails expects plugins to behave. Dependencies If your plugin has dependencies, make it a gem and have your users install...

  • Rails 3.0: Beta release

    You thought we were never going to get to this day, didn’t you? Ye of little faith. Because here is the first real, public release of Rails 3.0 in the...

  • Rails 3 Bugmash

    RailsBridge has organized a Rails 3 Bugmash on January 16th and 17th. The idea is to try and upgrade your apps and favourite plugins/gems to work with Rails 3 and...

  • Getting a New App Running on Edge

    (cross-posted from Yehuda’s Blog) So people have been attempting to get a Rails app up and running recently. I also have some apps in development on Rails 3, so I’ve...