Stefan Kaes has posted both the executive summary of Rails 1.1 performance (up to 11% faster in special cases) and a complete explanation of most of the performance enhancing changes....
Let’s start with the good news about freezing and Rails 1.1.1: New applications will automatically bind to the gem version of Rails they were created with using a RAILS_GEM_VERSION constant...
As the art of Rails development matures, so do the ways we teach and learn about it. Following the release of Rails 1.1, the state of Rails training just took...
One of the casualties of the 1.1 release was the experimental upload progress helper. Unfortunately it didn’t work on all the platforms we support and it was a source of...
Many shared hosts did a quick dance up and down at the release of Rails 1.1 because a large number of their customers were floating off the gems, which meant...
Today, Mike Clark follows the release of Rails 1.1 with: Rails 1.1: The Forgotten Features, a writeup of some of the little changes in Rails 1.1 that, though not big...
The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make...
There is some action down in San Diego on the Ruby and Rails front. The local RUG, after some time of inactivity, is revving back up. If you live in...
Kevin Clark has written up Rails for designers, an intro to Rails directed at designers which focuses on the parts and concepts of the framework that are of most immediate...