Ruby on Rails News

The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Registration is Open for Scotland on Rails

    Scotland on Rails is set to take place on April 4th and 5th in Edinburgh, Scotland featuring speakers from the UK, Europe, US and New Zealand. A list of sessions...

  • Capistrano 2.2.0

    Capistrano is a utility for managing remote servers and automating remote tasks. It is popularly used to deploy Rails applications (but can do oh, so much more!). Version 2.2.0 is...

  • Scotland on Rails April 4-5th

    Edinburgh is hosting Scotland on Rails from April 4-5th. A lot of cool people will be speaking there on interesting topics. Check it out.

  • RubyFools: Danish Ruby conference, April 1-2

    We normally don’t cover general-purpose Ruby conferences here, but since RubyFools is actually going down in the birth place of Rails and I won’t be able to be there, I...

  • Write rails apps in your browser

    Heroku is a rails platform with a twist: it all runs in your browser. The entire platform is build around a web based IDE which allows full rails development and...