Gerald Bauer demonstrates how to use Google's Gmail SMTP server to send e-mails from Ruby / Rails with ActionMailer.

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The spread of Rails Camp is unstoppable! First taking place in Australia, and next the UK, a Rails Camp for Denmark is now in the early stages of organization. The location will be in Svendborg on the island of Funen and the…

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On Ruby Inside: Engine Yard Takes $15 Million - A major validation of the Rails hosting space.

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South America tends to be off the radar when it comes to programming conferences, but no longer can this be said for the Rails world. Fabio Akita is doing a great job of promoting Ruby and Rails in Brazil (and…

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Infoworld has reviewed 9 different Ruby on Rails IDEs and editors.

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Ryan Daigle notes that ActiveRecord's validates_length_of validator now accepts a "tokenizer" block to implement custom length validators. Sounds confusing, but is actually rather useful.

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FiveRuns has released a library called DataFabric as an open source project on Github (with a MIT-esque license). DataFabric provides "flexible database connection switching" for ActiveRecord models, which permits easy replication-access and sharding support. DataFabric can be quickly installed with a simple…

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The Ubuntu Server team are looking for help and advice regarding improving the Ruby on Rails experience for the next Ubuntu release. If you have opinions regarding Rails deployment, this is the time to share them.

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The developers of Insoshi, an open source social networking system, wrote about how they upgraded the source to work with Rails 2.1. Even if you don't use Insoshi, it's a useful article to check out regarding upgrading projects to Rails 2.1,…

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Josh Symonds explains "pretty blocks" in Rails 2.1, how to use them, and how to define your own.

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