The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • The State of the Wiki

    The new and revitalized Rails Wiki launched about two weeks ago, so it’s time for a progress report back to the Rails community. The short answer: things are going well....

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    January 31, 2009 – February 6, 2009 The big news in edge Rails this week, of course, is the release of Rails 2.3.0 RC1. There’s been a fair amount of...

  • This Week in Rails 3.0

    Now that Rails 2.3 has hit the release candidate phase, some of the development effort is turning to Rails 3.0. With that activity heating up, it’s time to start keeping...

  • Rails Guides Gets a Facelift

    There’s a brand new version of Rails coming, as you already know. What better time for a new version of some of the Rails documentation? So the Rails Guides team...

  • Calling All Rails-Savvy Designers

    One thing that has been a continuing challenge for many Rails developers is finding a good designer to work with. There are certainly plenty of fantastic designers out there, but...

  • Rails 2.3.0 RC1: Templates, Engines, Rack, Metal, much more!

    Rails 2.3 is almost ready for release, but this package is so stock full of amazing new stuff that we’re making dutifully sure that everything works right before we call...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    January 24, 2009 – January 30, 2009 This week we saw 35 commits in edge Rails – though many are bug fixes and minor things. Here’s one more preview of...

  • Ruby / Rails Conferences

    When the economy hits a downturn this typically has an immediate effect on tech conferences. Many tech conferences cannot run successfully without sponsorships, and with companies becoming more conservative with...

  • Autoloading ActiveResource schemas

    I just committed a little feature during our Rails core hackfest in Chicago: Autoloading ActiveResource schemas. Note: this is in my personal fork that’s up to date with the rails...

  • Visualizing the Rails commit history

    Ilya Grigorik wrote up a post on generating a code swarm visualization from git repositories. He wrote gitter to feed the git commit info for the Rails repository and feed...