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

  • 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...

  • Guides Hackfest

    I’m pleased to finally announce the Rails Guides Hackfests. And we got really exciting prizes too! There is a list of guides available at Lighthouse You can select one of...

  • Rails 2.0.4: Maintenance release

    Thanks to Git it’s been a lot easier to maintain older branches of the code base, so we’ve taken the opportunity to backport a bunch of bug fixes to the...

  • Tell your Rails story

    I’ve been receiving some very moving stories about how people came to be Rails programmers from incredibly diverse backgrounds over the years. I even talked to a taxi driver once...

  • Twitter account

    We have a twitter account for Rails at http://twitter.com/rails. You can follow it to receive regular updates about the framework.

  • Demo of Rails 2.2 internationalization

    Rails 2.2 is going to make it much, much easier to do internationalized sites. Check out Clemens Kofler’s sample app running live or peruse his code. Thread safety? Internationalization? What...