The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails Rumble 2008 applications

    Want to have a look at the entries for this year’s Rails Rumble? Take a look at this list of applications that were submitted and then ordered according to category....

  • Paris on Rails: December 1st

    Paris on Rails is having it’s third annual conference on December 1st. There’s a wealth of great speakers lined up and yours truly will be doing a video iChat session...

  • Rails 2.0.5: Security fixes

    Time for another small security fix for Rails 2.0.×. The 2.0.5 release contains just two changes: A backport of the offset/limit sanitization fix for Active Record and a fix against...

  • Response Splitting Risk

    The Ruby HTTP libraries used by Rails do not perform any santization of the values of their HTTP Headers. This can lead to Response Splitting and Header Injection attacks in...

  • RailsConf '09: Accepting proposals for Vegas!

    RailsConf 2009 is going to Las Vegas, baby. It’s happening from May 4-7 at the Las Vegas Hilton. Last year was an astounding success with probably the best session line-up...

  • 2 Weeks in Rails (October 10, 2008)

    Welcome to yet another edition of this Week in Rails where we summarize some of the most interesting stories of the past two weeks. If you’d rather listen to these...

  • This Week in Rails (September 24, 2008)

    Welcome to the sixth addition of This Week in Rails, where we’ll take a look of the past two weeks of innovation in the Rails community. If you’d rather listen...

  • This Week in Rails (September 10, 2008)

    Welcome to the fifth edition of This Week in Rails, a weekly report with highlights from the Rails community. Antonio Cangiano (the original author) has been pretty busy, so I...

  • Sven Fuchs explains the history and detail of I18n in Rails 2.2

    Sven Fuchs gave a great presentation at RailsConf Europe about the history and details of the forth-coming I18n support in Rails 2.2. Well worth reading if you’re in need of...

  • Rails 2.1.1: Lots of bug fixes

    Rails 2.1.1 is another maintenance release that includes a bunch of bug fixes and a fix for the REXML vulnerability. I’ve extracted all the changes from the CHANGELOGs into a...