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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

    December 13-December 19, 2008 Edition The Rails team hasn’t been hibernating this week: 50 commits hit the edge branch, from a variety of developers. Here’s my pick of the most...

  • Introducing Rails Metal

    Rails Edge adopted Rack a while back and we’ve been exploring ways to expose that better. The first thing we did was to make it really easy to hook up...

  • Hosting Ruby on Rails with Passenger

    Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails has been on a tour de force lately and rightfully so. It makes Rails deployment so much simpler and combined with REE faster and with less...

  • Videos from Paris on Rails '08

    I love how so many conferences are recording their sessions. Paris on Rails is another of those conferences and they’ve recently published their recordings as both video and audio. Most...

  • Videos from RailsConf Europe '08 live

    Blip.tv have published the five keynote videos from RailsConf Europe 2008. It includes Jeremy’s excellent talk on Performance on Rails and my own Living with Legacy Software. Check ’em out....

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    December 6-December 12, 2008 Edition Here’s your weekly roundup of the action out on the edge, where the code is exciting and sometimes even stable. There were only 32 commits...

  • RailsWay - German Rails Magazine

    If you can read German and you develop with Rails you’ll be happy to know that it republik, the same company that also produces a Java, .NET, and PHP magazine,...

  • New REE with OS X, 64-bit, Solaris support and GC patches

    Phusion is on a roll today. Not only did we just get a new Passenger, they’ve also just dropped a new REE (the Ruby patches for copy-on-write) that includes 64-bit...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    November 29-December 5, 2008 Edition Rails 2.3 development is still continuing at a healthy clip. Here’s an overview of what’s happened this week. Application Templates Rails now incorporates Jeremy McAnally’s...

  • Phusion Passenger 2.0.5 now compatible with Edge Rails

    The Phusion team keeps blazing ahead with Passenger and improving it rapidly. They’ve just released version 2.0.5, which includes a few fixes and introduces compatibility with the Rack-based Edge Rails....