DHH announces the release of Rails 2.2 Release Candidate 2. It's the last stop before Rails 2.2 final!

Webbynode is a new scalable, Xen VPS hosting company whose service is currently in beta. They are looking for further beta testers particularly from the Rails field.

Antonio Cangiano writes A major milestone for DB2 on Rails.

Ilya Grigorik writes about the successes - so far - in using MySQLPlus with Rails 2.2's database connection pool to improve ActiveRecord's scalability.

Ben Johnson says that Authgasm is "Rails authentication done right." Check it out and see for yourself.

TechCrunch writes "131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best." It's a good introduction to Rails Rumble.

InternetNews.com asks Do Ruby on Rails Developers Need Merb?

David Heinemeier Hansson has announced Rails 2.0.5, a point release of the now dated 2.0.x family. It's just a security release with two fixes.

John Desu shows how to play with Rails' routing to get meaningful (and beautiful) URLs.

John Main has 7 top tips for coding with currency - with Rails specifically in mind.