The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • What's New in Edge Rails: The Hodgepodgery

    It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a new Edge Rails post. I’ve really missed them and there have been a lot of changes, both big and small, on...

  • How do I learn Ruby & Rails?

    This is a question I get quite a lot. Where should I start? What should I do? What can I do to become a better Ruby/Rails developer etc.. (more common...

  • Community Highlights: Yehuda Katz

    Over the past few months, Rails core team member Yehuda Katz has posted a series of great blog articles describing some of the process and technique he’s used while coding...

  • Rails BugMash

    Some of you may remember the Rails Hackfests that were conducted in 2007 and 2008. Well, with some help from the RailsBridge folks, we’re bringing back something similar : The...

  • Rails 2.3.3: Touching, faster JSON, bug fixes

    We’ve released Ruby on Rails version 2.3.3. This release fixes a lot of bugs and introduces a handful of new features. Active Record touch is a convenient method to update...

  • Remaining Ruby & Rails Conferences in 09

    The Ruby and Rails community is still growing strong and the sheer number of conferences coming up is proof of that. Below I’ve put together a list of all the...

  • Community Highlights: Rails Prescriptions

    Doing Test Driven Development (TDD) effectively is not something that comes easy, even when you’re working with a well structured Rails application. Up until March of this year there really...

  • Minor Changes to the Rails Security Policy

    After reviewing the feedback on the two recent security announcements we’ve made a few minor changes to the Ruby on Rails security policy. The first change we’ve made is to...

  • Community Highlights: Ruby Heroes

    This week I’m happy to tell you about a new set of articles which will be appearing here on the Rails blog called “Community Highlights”. This new series will feature...

  • DoS Vulnerability in Ruby

    A Denial of Service vulnerability has been found and fixed in ruby. The vulnerability is due to the BigDecimal method mishandling certain large input values and can cause the interpreter...