The Rails Blog: News & Release Notes

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

  • acts_as_conference in Florida

    Rails For All is doing a Rails conference under the banner of acts_as_conference in Florida from February 8th through 9th. They’re currently open for proposals and you can sign up...

  • Rails 1.2.4: Maintenance release

    This release contains additional deprecation notices, security fixes and some minor performance improvements. All users of 1.2.3 are advised to upgrade. Deprecation Notices If you intend to upgrade to 2.0...

  • Handheld video of the RailsConf EU keynote

    Best Tech Videos is hosting a hand-held video of the keynote I gave at RailsConf EU. The majority of the talk was a live coding session, though, which is kinda...

  • Free Rails PDF Book

    Sitepoint is currently giving away free PDF copies of Patrick Lenz’s “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” book. Want a copy? Just head on over to http://rails.sitepoint.com and...

  • Adapter gems available

    The extracted adapter gems are now available for install from the gems.rubyonrails.org server. Say you want the Oracle adapter installed, you just do gem install activerecord-oracle-adapter. All the extracted gems...

  • Thanks!

    Now seems like a good time to thank the community which helped make our new release a reality. Rails 2.0 includes the work of more than 160 individuals who have...

  • Rails 2.0: Preview Release

    Behold, behold, Rails 2.0 is almost here. But before we can slap on the final stamp, we’re going to pass through a couple of trial release phases. The first is...

  • UC Berkeley teaches Ruby on Rails

    UC Berkeley is teaching Ruby on Rails in its CS198 Rad Labs class. The class is being taught by Dave Patterson, the creator of RISC, SPARC, RAID, and more. Quite...

  • Designing scalable architectures

    Jason Hoffman from Joyent had a great tutorial at RailsConf Europe on Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up. It defines the key terms and measurements of scaling and...

  • Summary of security articles and plugins

    The QuarkRuby blog has created a great Ruby on Rails Security Guide that gives you a wealth of links to articles and plugins dealing with security in Rails applications. Everything...