The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • RailsConf Europe: Registration is open!

    RailsConf Europe has opened the doors for registration. The conference is returning to Berlin, Germany from September 2nd through 4th. If you register before July 15th, you can save up...

  • Two New Weekly Columns

    I’d like to introduce two new contributors to the Rails blog. First up is Chu Yeow. Chu has been putting together weekly Living on the Edge blog posts where he...

  • Free Rails 2.1 Book

    If you’re eager to learn how to use all the new features in Rails 2.1, Carlos Brando just released a free book titled Ruby on Rails 2.1, What’s New?. You...

  • RubyEnRails 2008

    RubyEnRails 2008 is a Dutch Rails conference happening on June 10th. They still have a few tickets left, so if you’re able to go, there’s still the option. Lots of...

  • RailsConf in 36 minutes

    Gregg Pollack has made a great video with interviews of speakers and attendants at RailsConf as a way of giving people who weren’t there a taste of what it was...

  • Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc

    Rails 2.1 is now available for general consumption with all the features and fixes we’ve been putting in over the last six months since 2.0. This has been a huge...

  • Guide to creating and testing patches with Git

    Michael has written up a guide on how to create and test patches with Git. A good read for anyone interested in contributing or following the development of Rails.

  • Help improve Rails documentation on Git branch

    Pratik’s documentation branch for Rails has moved to http://github.com/lifo/docrails. This branch is open for all to contribute to directly. Just send Pratik a note on Github asking for access and...

  • Rails 2.1 release candidate is imminent!

    Threat level orange, guys! The release candidate for Rails 2.1 is drawing awfully close, so if you’ve been sitting on a patch that just must make it in now is...

  • RailsConf keynotes: Kent Beck, Joel Spolsky, Jeremy Kemper, yours truly

    I’m happy to announce that we finalized the keynote line-up for this year’s RailsConf and I can’t believe the great names we got (especially that last guy on the list,...