November 3, 2008
Rails Guides Wants You
If you haven’t looked at the state of Rails documentation lately, it’s time to look again. The new Ruby on Rails Guides page includes 14 separate guides for Rails developers,...
October 29, 2008
3 Weeks in Rails (October 29, 2008)
It’s been 3 weeks (I know I’ve been slacking). However, it’s time to write out another summary of information that any Rails developer might want to know about. Detailed audio...
October 27, 2008
Step by step guide to contributing code to Rails
Always wanted to bask in the glory of being a Rails contributor? Mike Gunderloy has compiled a 12-step program to get you there from square. It’s never to late to...
October 24, 2008
Rails 2.2 RC1: i18n, thread safety, docs, etag/last-modified, JRuby/1.9 compatibility
Rails 2.2 is almost ready for its final release, but before we christen the gems, we’d like to have everyone test out a release candidate. Rails 2.2 is a major...
October 23, 2008
Rails 2.1.2: Security, other fixes
Rails 2.1.2 includes the same two security fixes that we pushed out for 2.0.x recently. We’re talking about a backport of the offset/limit sanitization fix for Active Record and a...
October 20, 2008
Rails Rumble 2008 applications
Want to have a look at the entries for this year’s Rails Rumble? Take a look at this list of applications that were submitted and then ordered according to category....
October 20, 2008
Paris on Rails: December 1st
Paris on Rails is having it’s third annual conference on December 1st. There’s a wealth of great speakers lined up and yours truly will be doing a video iChat session...
October 19, 2008
Rails 2.0.5: Security fixes
Time for another small security fix for Rails 2.0.×. The 2.0.5 release contains just two changes: A backport of the offset/limit sanitization fix for Active Record and a fix against...
October 19, 2008
Response Splitting Risk
The Ruby HTTP libraries used by Rails do not perform any santization of the values of their HTTP Headers. This can lead to Response Splitting and Header Injection attacks in...
October 15, 2008
RailsConf '09: Accepting proposals for Vegas!
RailsConf 2009 is going to Las Vegas, baby. It’s happening from May 4-7 at the Las Vegas Hilton. Last year was an astounding success with probably the best session line-up...