The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 Released

    Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be easily upgraded...

  • Community Highlights

    I’m always impressed by the continuous flow of innovation from the Rails community. Below are just a few of the highlights from the past month. These stories all came from...

  • What's New in Edge Rails

    So, Edge Rails is still chugging right along. There are new and interesting fixes, changes, and refactors going on all of the time. So, lets take a look at just...

  • RubyEnRails 2009

    RubyEnRails 2009 goes down this 30/31 October in Amsterdam. Talks are in English and Dutch. RubyEnRails has been all-volunteer for four years running, building on a history of sweet venues,...

  • What's New in Edge Rails: The Security Edition

    It’s been a bit over two weeks since the last WNiER (“winner”?) post and in the time since our last visit, Ruby on Rails 2.3.4 was released to fix some...