Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Security Problem with authenticate_with_http_digest

    A security problem has been reported with the digest authentication code in Ruby on Rails. This vulnerability can allow users to bypass your password protection. This vulnerability has been publicly...

  • Community feedback for the future of Rails

    A few months ago, we announced the creation of a “forum” to discuss the future of Rails and what the community is interested in. Since then, many important suggestions/topics were...

  • New code contributor index

    Xavier Noria (code) and José Espinal (design) have created an awesome code contributor index for Rails core submissions. It’s being updated automatically every night and tracks the number of commits...