Take approximately 500 Rails coders with a weekend to spare, an awesome collection of prizes, and a stackload of Linode virtual servers and you end up with Rails Rumble - a significant annual contest to develop the best Rails application possible in just two days. 245,000 lines of code were written and, as TechCrunch reported, [...]
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 [...]
The much anticipated Rails Summit Latin America is underway and runs till the end of Thursday in Sao Paulo, Brazil. So far Chad Fowler has taken the stage with a keynote and David Heinemeier Hansson has appeared via video link. Sessions from Dr. Nic, Chris Wanstrath, Fabio Akita, the Phusion guys, Charles Nutter, Obie Fernandez, [...]
Have you ever thought about giving up sleep for a weekend to participate in one of the Rails Rumbles? If so, it's time to start thinking about putting together a team and coming up with a project idea because the 2008 Rails Rumble is just around the corner.
According the official Rails Rumble blog - the [...]
Disclaimer: New Relic sponsors Ruby and Rails Inside. This announcement is not advertorial, however, and is written as objectively as possible. Similar items have been written for non-sponsors, such as this item on Scout.
New Relic is best known as a provider of Rails application monitoring services to large sites - such as all of 37signals' [...]
Outside of thread safety and internationalization support (both of which will be supported in Rails 2.2), one of the most maligned areas for Rails development has been the online documentation.
An effort to improve that situation though was recently posted on the Rails Weblog with the announcement of a Rails Guide Hackfest. For the Hackfest, they're [...]
David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of Rails 2.1.1. You can get up and running with:
gem install rails –version 2.1.1 — remember to prefix with sudo, if appropriate!
Rails 2.1.1 is just a maintenance release of Rails 2.1 but, significantly, patches the REXML vulnerability - so if you haven't done that patch yet (naughty, naughty!) [...]
The developer of NeverBlock, Muhammad Ali of eSpace, has written a compelling blog post called Building the Never Blocking Rails, Making Rails 12X Faster where he outlines a number of improvements and changes that can made to Rails to send its performance through the glass ceiling. It's worth noting, however, that the performance increases revolve [...]
EnvyCasts is the latest venture by the presenters of the popular Rails Envy podcast - Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack. Like PeepCode, EnvyCasts follows a model of offering an instructional video and supporting materials on a single topic for $9 in a variety of formats (QuickTime, Ogg Theora, and iPhone/iPod).
The first release is Advanced [...]
The official Ruby blog announces that REXML, an XML library that comes with Ruby and is heavily used by many Ruby apps (including RAils), is vulnerable to a specific type of attack that could result in a denial of service. Core Rails developer, Michael "Koz" Koziarski has posted instructions on how to work around it.
If [...]
