Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • Multiple Ruby security vulnerabilities

    Drew Yao at Apple uncovered a handful of nasty security vulnerabilities affecting all current versions of Ruby. The details are still under wraps because an attacker can DoS you or...

  • Living on the Edge (or what's new in Edge Rails) #1 - API changes and PerformanceTests

    As Gregg Pollack mentioned a week or so ago, I’ll be keeping a weekly-or-so column about noteworthy changes on edge Rails. This is the first time Living on the Edge...

  • Ruby Conferences and Tracks

    There are several Ruby / Rails related conferences coming up in the next few months. Some of these are smaller regional conferences, and some of them are larger conferences which...

  • This Week in Rails (June 16, 2008)

    This is the first edition of This Week in Rails. As announced by Gregg Pollack a few days ago, this weekly column will cover highlights from the Rails community. My...

  • Capistrano 2.4.0

    Capistrano 2.4.0 is now available. Capistrano is the deployment tool of choice for many Rails programmers, but can be used for much more, allowing you to automate remote tasks using...

  • 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...