Today, David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of the first "Release Candidate" of Rails 2.2. Mike Gunderloy has put together a remarkable page listing all of the key changes individually. They include:

Internationalization
Significant Ruby 1.9 and JRuby compatability improvements
HTTP ETag support
Thread safety
Transactional migrations
Database connection pooling
Memoization
and, naturally, a lot more..

The Release Candiate's primary function is to [...]

Back in 2005, the first Rails application a novice Rails developer produced was typically a simple blog-like system. This was in no small part thanks to a great screencast produced by David Heinemeier Hansson demonstrating how to create such a system in 15 minutes. Sadly, these screencasts have not been updated to 2008 standards, so [...]

From our Rails jobs board comes some amazing sounding jobs this month! I'm almost tempted to emigrate and apply for a few.
The working environments include a gaming startup, a skunkworks at an adult entertainment company, a house in Los Angeles, and the prestigious offices of an NYSE-listed mega-corporation. All the jobs are in the United [...]

Open Source Rails presents profiles of open sourced Ruby on Rails apps. The site allows you to submit application of your own, comment on existing apps, update the details for other apps, and keep track of those you're interested in. On most profiles you're given direct links to the app's homepage, main developer(s), and source [...]

Open Flash Chart is an open source Flash charting tool that can produce a wide range of attractive graphs and charts. Developer Charlie Snider has announced that he has ported the code to Ruby, primarily for use with Rails. He has provided a large number of demonstrations with example code. The library is LGPL (or [...]

Sven Fuchs is part of the team working on internationalization in the forthcoming Rails 2.2. Work began in September 2007 with the team deciding that enough was enough with the sloppy support for internationalization in Rails. They wanted to "eliminate the need for monkey patching Rails in order to internationalize an application" by "implementing a [...]

Rails-doc.org is a new attempt at organizing Rails' documentation by a Finnish company called Nodeta. As well as providing a quick way to search and browse through the existing documentation (with live search and keyboard accessible navigation), Rails-doc also allows registered members to annotate and leave notes against entries. Rails-doc.org's aim at improving Rails' documentation [...]

Yo Rails! is a new site that makes it easy to find quality Rails links (to tutorials, screencasts, resource sites, etc) simply by narrowing down what you want by tags. It was developed because finding certain items again using Google can prove tricky, but by narrowing down by tags, it only takes a few clicks.
It's [...]