The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Pratik joins core, retired members go alumni

    We’re shaking up the Rails core group a bit. First, please welcome Pratik Naik as the newest member of the group. He’s been doing great work all around the framework...

  • Comparing Rails 2.0 to 1.2 for speed and memory

    Hongli Lai has compared a dummy scaffold application from Rails 1.2 to Rails 2.0 and found the latter to be 30-50% faster. That’s great to see. But what I think...

  • Funny or Die handles big load on Rails

    Funny Or Die is pulling high G’s scaling their Rails site to handle 9GBps of video and 20MBps of compressed HTML traffic from the stunts of Will Ferrell and others....

  • RadRails 1.0 released

    Aptana has released RadRails 1.0 with a bunch of cool new features. I really like their debugging and profiling tools that allow you to inspect the call graph and see...

  • RailsConf seats filling up

    The $100 early-bird discount lasts until April 10th, but it seems like the open seats might not. So if you’re looking to meet up with the rest of the Rails...