The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    April 18, 2009 – April 24, 2009 Edge Rails has been undergoing major surgery for the past week, as the core team gets ready for a Rails 3.0 alpha release...

  • 2009 Rails Google Summer of Code Projects

    The Google Summer of Code program has announced this year’s funding winners, and Rails has four student slots. Here’s what our students will be working on this summer: Joshua Peek...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    April 4 – April 17, 2009 Just in case you missed the news: edge Rails is waking up, with Rails 3 changes starting to show up in the master branch...

  • Phusion Announces Passenger for Nginx

    In the relatively short time since its release, Phusion Passenger has become part of the preferred deployment strategy for many Rails applications. But because it’s targeted at Apache, some sites...

  • One Giant Leap Forward

    As of a few minutes ago, the first big bunch of Rails 3 changes were merged back to Rails master branch in github. This represents a good deal of work...

  • Rails IDEs March On

    Many Rails developers are perfectly happy working on their code in a text editor – and there are certainly plenty of excellent text editors out there. But others, particularly those...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    March 28, 2009 – April 3, 2009 Things are still fairly quiet out on the edge: 5 commits this week. The work for Rails 3.0 hasn’t been merged back to...

  • RailsConf interviews, presenter posts, and keynotes

    RailsConf 2009 is drawing ever closer and it’s going to be one hell of a show worthy of Vegas glitz and glamour. To let you all get more familiar with...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    March 21, 2009 – March 27, 2009 It’s been a quiet week for Rails on the surface: just half a dozen commits over the course of the week. Behind the...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    March 14, 2009 – March 20, 2009 The big news in Rails this week, of course, was the release of Rails 2.3. But that certainly doesn’t mean the Rails edge...