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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    January 10, 2009 -January 16, 2009 24 commits for edge Rails this week (with one patch ported over to the 2.2 branch as well). If you want a pre-release look...

  • Rails Documentation Projects

    With the recent revitalization of the Rails Wiki project, we’re seeing people ask how the various pieces of Rails documentation fit together. I thought it might be useful to lay...

  • Activist Status & Wiki Project

    So last week we were announced as activists, but what have we been doing? I’m sure there are some wondering, so here is our first report. Read on for news...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    January 3, 2009 -January 9, 2009 It was a pretty light week for the edge Rails tree: about 20 commits. We’re starting to see things coalesce for a 2.3 release,...

  • Announcing the Rails activists

    Bringing Rails and Merb together is about more than just merging the respective code. We’re also picking up the best ideas from both communities beyond the code. Following on Merb’s...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    December 27, 2008-January 2, 2009 Happy New Year! Apparently the Rails core team was not doing too much partying to end the old year: we had 35 commits hit the...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    December 20-December 26, 2008 Edition The biggest change in Rails in recent memory isn’t reflected in edge Rails yet: I’m speaking, of course, about the merger of Merb into Rails...

  • Merb gets merged into Rails 3!

    It’s christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you. We’re ending the bickering between Merb and Rails with a this bombshell: Merb is being merged into Rails 3!...

  • Mild refresh of rubyonrails.org

    We’ve just launched a mild refresh of the rubyonrails.org site. It now runs on Radiant through Passenger at Slicehost and includes a nip and tuck in various places along with...

  • Performance of Rails Metal

    Josh recently added Rails Metal, which has been getting a fair bit of publicity. Metal is a great piece of functionality for those rare cases where the speed of your...