The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • RailsConf Europe '08: Get your proposals in!

    The call for participation for RailsConf Europe ‘08 has opened up and we’re now accepting proposals. The conference is returning to Berlin and the conference will happen between the 2nd...

  • Trouble installing new gems? (Part II)

    A number of users have reported problems installing the latest Rails gems, especially on Windows. The solution is to upgrade RubyGems to version 0.9.5 1.0.0 before upgrading. You can check...

  • Rails 2.0.2: Some new defaults and a few fixes

    Now that we have the big Rails 2.0 release out the door, it’s a lot easier to push out smaller updates more frequently. So that’s what we’re going to do....

  • Rails 2.0: It's done!

    Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making. This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible...

  • Give your Rails 2.0 application an iPhone UI

    Multi-view development is a big deal in Rails 2.0. We’ve made it much simpler to allow the same action to serve many different formats. From HTML to XML to JSON...

  • Learn more about Rails 2.0 through video

    Railscasts.com is running a special series on what’s new in Rails 2.0. They’ve been showing off how to simplify views, how to usethe new foxy fixtures, and how to use...

  • Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 2

    After another batch of fixes, tweaks, and buckets of polish, we’ve prepared the hopefully last step before 2.0 can go final: Release Candidate 2. If nothing major pops up, expect...

  • Ruby on Rails 1.2.6: Security and Maintenance Release

    The rails core team has released ruby on rails 1.2.6 to address a bug in the fix for session fixation attacks (CVE-2007-5380). The CVE Identifier for this new issue is...

  • New ActiveRecord Book, and a Contest!

    To celebrate the launch of their book Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby on Rails, Chad Pytel and Jon Yurek of thoughtbot kicked off a little contest: We want you...

  • Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 1

    We’ve been taking our sweet time, but now it really is almost there. We’ve just pushed new beta gems to gems.rubyonrails.org and created the rel_2-0-0_RC1 tag. So this is shaping...