July 6, 2008
Living on the Edge (or what's new in Edge Rails) #3
There hasn’t been much of note in terms of big changes or features in edge Rails lately, so this time I’ll leave you to pore over the Rails commit logs...
June 25, 2008
This Week in Rails (June 26, 2008)
Welcome to the second edition of This Week in Rails, a weekly report with highlights from the Rails community. Ruby Vulnerabilities As previously reported by Jeremy Kemper, serious vulnerabilities have...
June 25, 2008
Living on the Edge (or what's new in Edge Rails) #2 - Performance improvements
The first Living on the Edge covered some of the API changes since Rails 2.1, and this time round, I’m going to cover the performance improvements as promised. Jumping right...
June 21, 2008
Multiple Ruby security vulnerabilities
Drew Yao at Apple uncovered a handful of nasty security vulnerabilities affecting all current versions of Ruby. The details are still under wraps because an attacker can DoS you or...
June 20, 2008
Living on the Edge (or what's new in Edge Rails) #1 - API changes and PerformanceTests
As Gregg Pollack mentioned a week or so ago, I’ll be keeping a weekly-or-so column about noteworthy changes on edge Rails. This is the first time Living on the Edge...
June 18, 2008
Ruby Conferences and Tracks
There are several Ruby / Rails related conferences coming up in the next few months. Some of these are smaller regional conferences, and some of them are larger conferences which...
June 16, 2008
This Week in Rails (June 16, 2008)
This is the first edition of This Week in Rails. As announced by Gregg Pollack a few days ago, this weekly column will cover highlights from the Rails community. My...
June 13, 2008
Capistrano 2.4.0
Capistrano 2.4.0 is now available. Capistrano is the deployment tool of choice for many Rails programmers, but can be used for much more, allowing you to automate remote tasks using...
June 10, 2008
RailsConf Europe: Registration is open!
RailsConf Europe has opened the doors for registration. The conference is returning to Berlin, Germany from September 2nd through 4th. If you register before July 15th, you can save up...
June 10, 2008
Two New Weekly Columns
I’d like to introduce two new contributors to the Rails blog. First up is Chu Yeow. Chu has been putting together weekly Living on the Edge blog posts where he...