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The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • 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...

  • Prototype 1.6.0 and script.aculo.us 1.8.0 released

    New versions of the JavaScript libraries that ship with Rails, Prototype 1.6.0 and script.aculo.us 1.8.0, have been released. You can find out about the numerous changes on the Prototype blog...

  • RailsConf '08: Call for participation

    RailsConf 2008 is set to return to Portland on May 29th through June 1st. It takes a lot of time and coordination to get a conference of that magnitude put...

  • Paris on Rails: December 10th

    Paris on Rails is a French-speaking Rails conference that’s taking place in Paris on December 10th. They have a great program for the day with 10 speakers (yours truly included...

  • Today is Leopard day!

    OS X 10.5 is shipping today under the Leopard moniker. Besides being a great upgrade to a wonderful operating system, it's also the first version of OS X that ships...