The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Get Paid to Work on Rails

    Last year, as you may recall, Rails got thread safety and a new core committer thanks to our participation in the Google Summer of Code program under the auspices of...

  • Rails 2.3: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more!

    Rails 2.3 is finally done and out the door. This is one of the most substantial upgrades to Rails in a very long time. A brief rundown of the top...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    March 6, 2009 – March 13, 2009 Things have been pretty busy on the development side since the release of Rails 2.3 RC2. The core team has been making a...

  • Update on Rails Guides and Documentation

    We have been working on the Rails guides for some months now. With substantial contributions from a variety of authors, things are looking even better in the next version of...

  • Rails Magazine #1 is Out

    One of the measures of the health of a development platform is its ability to support a vibrant ecosystem of users, contributors, speakers, and authors. By this measure, Rails remains...

  • Rails 2.3 RC2: Final stop before release

    The past month has seen a flurry of activity getting Rails 2.3 solid. We think we’ve ironed out all the major kinks now, but just to be sure, we’re running...

  • XSS and CSRF Vulnerabilities in the in_place_editing plugin

    We have been advised of several vulnerabilities in the in_place_editing plugin which was created prior to the 2.0.0 release of Ruby on Rails. The actions generated by in_place_edit_for perform no...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    February 14, 2009 – February 27, 2009 The sharp-eyed will notice that This Week covers two weeks this week. As Rails 2.3 approaches release, the core team is getting pickier...

  • 2009 Ruby Hero Awards

    There are many people in the Ruby community who contribute to our blossoming ecosystem. Some do this by producing educational content and others by contributing to open source libraries or...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    February 7, 2009 – February 13, 2009 It’s been a fairly busy week on the edge, but there are not a lot of new features to point at. That’s good:...