Ruby on Rails News

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 BugMash Edition

    Another week, another update on Edge Rails. And man, you aren’t making this easy on me, are ya? This weekend, in case you hadn’t already heard, was the first Rails...

  • Community Highlights: IronRuby

    As Rubyists migrate from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 1.9, new Ruby implementations are gaining in maturity. Recently, IBM's Antonio Cangiano wrote an interesting article comparing the performance between Ruby 1.8,...

  • 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...