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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • How time zone support will work in Rails 2.1

    Geoff Buesing has writing a great guide to the time zone support in Rails 2.1. It goes through all the new features including how to setup per-user time zone support...

  • Passenger (mod_rails for Apache) launches

    The guys at Phusion has finally wrapped up Passenger, their mod_rails-like module for Apache. It’s looking like a great, easy solution for people who want a more PHP-like deployment story....

  • Rails premieres on GitHub

    GitHub has now officially launched and Rails is right there at the premiere. The Rails repository now lives at rails/rails and you can check it out with: git clone git://github.com/rails/rails.git...

  • Session schedule for RailsConf available

    The session schedule for RailsConf is now available. A very packed lineup across Thursday through Sunday. Also, the early bird deal is ending April 10th. After that, the price of...

  • Why Git won't mean Rails snubs Windows

    There seem to be some confusion over what the core development of Rails on Git will mean to Windows users. The simple answer is: Absolutely nothing. But let me give...

  • Rails is moving from SVN to Git

    We’ve been preparing for Rails to move the official source repository from Subversion to Git for some time now and it seems that it’ll happen over the next week or...

  • A taste of what's coming in Rails 2.1

    Rails 2.1 is not far off the horizon and we’ve been adding a ton of extra deliciously nice goodies in preparation of its release lately. As always, the good Ryan...

  • Cobol on Cogs

    Watch out, Railsters. The next big thing is going to be Cobol on Cogs.

  • Use Active Resource with SimpleDB

    Amazon has a cool article on how to use Active Resource as a consumer for SimpleDB through the AWS SDB Proxy for Rails.

  • mod_rails is on the way

    Hongli and crew from Phusion have been hard at work for some time to fix the ease-of-deployment issue on Apache with their Passenger project. They now have a video that...