Rails for Zombies
This morning my team over at Envy Labs released a free online tutorial called Rails for Zombies. The website combines screencasts with in-browser coding to provide an interactive learning experience teaching the basics of Ruby on Rails.
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Rails 3.0.3: Faster Active Record plus fixes
How about some free speed? Well, here you go. Rails 3.0.3 includes a much faster version of Active Record that reclaims the performance lost when we went from Rails 2.3.x to 3.x and then some. Aaron Patterson has done a phenomenal job benc......
Security Vulnerability in Nested Attributes code in Ruby On Rails 2.3.9 and 3.0.0
There is a vulnerability in the nested attributes handling code in some versions of Ruby on Rails. An attacker could manipulate form parameters and make changes to records other than those the developer intended. This vulnerability has be...
charity:water thanks the Rails community
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15600111?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=0ead00" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe>Thank you, Ruby on Rails community, from Central African Republic.
We raise...
RubyAndRails 2010
RubyEnRails returns this year bigger and better as RubyAndRails 2010, running from 21-22 October in Amsterdam. Talks are in English and entry is just €149,00.
The speaker lineup is shaping up great. Check out the program and sign up n...
Santiago Pastorino joins Rails Core
It’s my pleasure to announce that Santiago Pastorino has joined the Rails Core group. Santiago only started contributing to Rails this year, but has been on fire ever since his first patches were accepted. He’s managed to rack up 380 c...
Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 Released
We’ve released Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 (gem and git tag) to extend the 2.3.8 bridge a few steps closer to Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9. If your app runs on Rails 2.3.9 without deprecation warnings, you’re looking good for an upgrade to Rails...
Appreciate Rails 3 with charity
Rails 3.0 is a gift from all of us who’ve worked on it to anyone who wants to build something. If you like our gift, please show it by donating to the Rails 3.0 release charity: Charity:Water. We’ve started a campaign to raise...
Rails 3.0: It’s ready!
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and mo...
Rails Has Great Documentation
To this day I still hear people complain that Rails has poor documentation. From where I’m sitting this seems far from the truth. Let me lay out the evidence piece by piece:
RailsTutorial.org
To learn Rails from scratch Michael ...
Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2
The release candidate process is progressing as planned. This second candidate has very few changes over the first, which means that unless any blockers are discovered with this release, we’re targeting the final release of Rails 3.0 for...
Rails 3.0: Release candidate!
High off Baltimore Pandemic and Yellow Tops, I believe we promised a release candidate shortly after RailsConf. As things usually go in open source, we gorged ourselves on fixes and improvements instead. But all to your benefit. We’ve ha...
