April 21, 2008
Ruby Heroes accepting nominations
Ruby Hero Award is a great initiative to highlight some of all the hard-working people in the Ruby and Rails communities who might otherwise not get as much exposure as...
April 21, 2008
rubyonrails.org was not hijacked
Due to a snafu at the domain company holding rubyonrails.org, the site was turned into their default Google-baiting holding spot yesterday. The problem has now been resolved and the Google-bait...
April 15, 2008
Rails (and family) on Lighthouse
Lighthouse “version 2” deployed yesterday, so I’m officially opening the Rails Lighthouse tracker up for business. Other spinoff projects such as Prototype and Capistrano have already made the switch. As...
April 12, 2008
How time zone support will work in Rails 2.1
Geoff Buesing has writing a great guide to the time zone support in Rails 2.1. It goes through all the new features including how to setup per-user time zone support...
April 11, 2008
Passenger (mod_rails for Apache) launches
The guys at Phusion has finally wrapped up Passenger, their mod_rails-like module for Apache. It’s looking like a great, easy solution for people who want a more PHP-like deployment story....
April 11, 2008
Rails premieres on GitHub
GitHub has now officially launched and Rails is right there at the premiere. The Rails repository now lives at rails/rails and you can check it out with: git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git...
April 7, 2008
Session schedule for RailsConf available
The session schedule for RailsConf is now available. A very packed lineup across Thursday through Sunday. Also, the early bird deal is ending April 10th. After that, the price of...
April 3, 2008
Why Git won't mean Rails snubs Windows
There seem to be some confusion over what the core development of Rails on Git will mean to Windows users. The simple answer is: Absolutely nothing. But let me give...
April 2, 2008
Rails is moving from SVN to Git
We’ve been preparing for Rails to move the official source repository from Subversion to Git for some time now and it seems that it’ll happen over the next week or...
April 1, 2008
A taste of what's coming in Rails 2.1
Rails 2.1 is not far off the horizon and we’ve been adding a ton of extra deliciously nice goodies in preparation of its release lately. As always, the good Ryan...