The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • ActiveMerchant 1.3 released

    ActiveMerchant 1.3 has been released. The focus on this latest release was the addition of standardized support for the Address Verification System (AVS) and credit card verification value (CVV2) checks...

  • RailsConf '08: Registration is open!

    The registration for RailsConf ‘08 is now open. And if previous years are any indications, I’d register sooner rather than later if you intend to go. We’re returning to the...

  • The Rails Way and Advanced Rails Recipes

    The flow of new Rails books seems unstoppable these days and it’s hard to keep up with all of the new releases. But there are two books that I’ve recently...

  • Sun launches JRuby on Rail site

    Sun’s Mediacast site is now running JRuby on Rails as their production stack. As Igor Minar tells, this is definitely still early days for the JRuby/Rails pair, but none the...

  • RailsConf '07 keynotes on video

    It took eons, but the videos recorded at RailsConf ‘07 are finally ready. These videos include all the keynotes from the conference. A great warm-up for 2008 as we’ll soon...