Rails 3.0: Beta 4 now, RC in days
RailsConf 2010 is underway and what better occasion to do the final stage of the Rails 3 beta program. We’re very pleased to announce Rails 3 beta 4, which we’ll be hammering on and tuning during RailsConf.
At the end of RailsConf, ...
Ruby on Rails 2.3.8 Released
The 2.3.7 release slipped out the door too hastily. Fixing compatibility with the rails_xss plugin inadvertently forced everyone to use it. Facepalm.
I apologize for wasting a chunk of your day on installing what ought to have been a pa...
Ruby on Rails 2.3.7 Released
With the 2.3.6 release hot out of the oven, Nathan Weizenbaum began updating HAML to support it. He uncovered a couple of bugs in the HTML-safety changes backported from Rails 3, so we’re cutting a 2.3.7 release to fix them.
If you us...
Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 Released
We’ve released Ruby on Rails 2.3.6: six months of bug fixes, a handful of new features, and a strong bridge to Rails 3.
We deprecated some obscure and ancient features in Rails 2.3.6 so we could cut them entirely from Rails 3. If your......
Rails 3.0: Third beta release
We’re marching towards the release candidates with hurried steps, but along the way we stopped by for another beta. This one spins out a few overdue extractions into plugins (see http://github.com/rails/verification and http://github.com...
Rails 3.0: Second beta release
It took longer than we thought, but then again, what doesn’t? This is the second beta release of Rails 3.0 and hopefully our last stop before a release candidate. There are still a handful of known regressions (see the list at the end),...
Learn About Rails 3′s Fantastic New Router
Rizwan Reza recently wrote a post about many of the new features in Rails 3's router. The changes are significant and, in one fell swoop, moot many of the routing plugins people have written over the years.
Check it out at http://www.eng...
Ruby Hero Awards 2010
It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those people who have impacted Ruby community but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have given away twelve awards in the past two years at Railsconf, and this yea......
Rails and the Enterprise
If you have been in the Rails community for a little while, you have more than likely noticed the love/hate relationship that is entertained by the community vis-à-vis the Enterprise.
Some people hate the enterprise and publicly tell it t...
Ruby Summer of Code
Rails participated in Google’s summer of code program for the first time last year. We got four great projects and three long-term contributors from the effort, including Josh Peek and José Valim, who’ve both joined Rails core, and Em...
Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010
There are an incredible amount of Ruby & Rails conferences coming up in the next 6 months. See below to find one in your neck of the woods.
March 11-12 – MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Cost: 100 USD
March 12...
José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core
Please give a warm welcome to José Valim and Carl Lerche as they both join the Rails core team. Both guys have been key contributors to the Rails 3 development and both have made it into the top 10 of all-time Rails contributors....
