The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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....

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    Yesterday was Thanksgiving holiday for US-based developers – but it certainly hasn’t looked like a holiday week in edge Rails. Things are moving fast, with some major changes afoot for...

  • New 15-minute blog video on Rails 2.2

    The old 15-minute blog video was getting really long in the tooth, so it’s with great pleasure that I can present the new video made with Rails 2.2 and done...

  • Rails 2.2: i18n, HTTP validators, thread safety, JRuby/1.9 compatibility, docs

    Rails 2.2 is finally done after we cleared the last issues from the release candidate program. This release contains an long list of fixes, improvements, and additions that’ll make everything...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    First up this week, a warning for those who don’t closely follow the state of the Rails repository – “edge” really means edge now. The bits for 2.2 are getting...

  • Potential Circumvention of CSRF Protection in Rails 2.1

    There is a bug in all 2.1.x versions of Ruby on Rails which affects the effectiveness of the CSRF protection given by protect_from_forgery. By design rails does not perform token...