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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Rails Guides Wants You

    If you haven’t looked at the state of Rails documentation lately, it’s time to look again. The new Ruby on Rails Guides page includes 14 separate guides for Rails developers,...

  • 3 Weeks in Rails (October 29, 2008)

    It’s been 3 weeks (I know I’ve been slacking). However, it’s time to write out another summary of information that any Rails developer might want to know about. Detailed audio...

  • Step by step guide to contributing code to Rails

    Always wanted to bask in the glory of being a Rails contributor? Mike Gunderloy has compiled a 12-step program to get you there from square. It’s never to late to...

  • Rails 2.2 RC1: i18n, thread safety, docs, etag/last-modified, JRuby/1.9 compatibility

    Rails 2.2 is almost ready for its final release, but before we christen the gems, we’d like to have everyone test out a release candidate. Rails 2.2 is a major...

  • Rails 2.1.2: Security, other fixes

    Rails 2.1.2 includes the same two security fixes that we pushed out for 2.0.x recently. We’re talking about a backport of the offset/limit sanitization fix for Active Record and a...

  • 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...