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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

    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...

  • New Rails 2.2 i18n defaults

    I just reduced the housework needed to setup a new Rails application with i18n. All new applications will ship with a config/locales directory that’s automatically wired up in the load...

  • Rails 2.2 RC2: Last stop before final

    Rails 2.2 has been baking for long enough now. This is the last taste before the goodies are served. So please install and check it out. See if you can...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    The important news in edge Rails this week is the imminent release of Rails 2.2.1 – otherwise known as Rails 2.2 RC2. Getting ready for this release did lead to...

  • Official DB2 adapter from IBM for Rails

    IBM have just wrapped up a new DB2 adapter that fixes a bunch of bugs, adds support for a range of features, and works with the rails -d setup to...

  • This Week in Edge Rails

    Rails, as you probably know, is under active development. So, for those of you who don’t have time to read every commit to the source, we’ve decided to revive this...