The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • 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...