Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and so much more After six months of polish, four betas, and two release candidates, Rails 5.0 is finally done! It’s taken hundreds of contributors and thousands of commits to get here, but what a destination: Rails 5.0 is without a doubt the best, most complete version of Rails yet. It’s incredible that this community is still going so strong after so long. Than

We’re happy to announce Rails 5 RC2 has been released. We continue to work torwards the final Rails 5 release. Between RC1 and RC2 Rails got 91 commits! That’s a whole lot of bug fixes and polishing! To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub: Action Mailer CHANGELOG Action Pack CHANGELOG Action View CHANGELOG Active Model CHANGELOG Active Record CHANGELOG Active Suppor

We’re currently down to 18 open issues on the issue tracker for Rails 5.0.0.RC1. But while we continue to drive that number down, we thought it’d be nice to release another beta with the many fixes and updates we’ve seen since beta2. We’ve had some 500+ commits pass since that release, and for people testing out Rails 5.0, it’s just a better release. The release targets have been moved out a bit,

Ruby on Rails’ phenomenal rise to prominence owed much of its lift-off to novel technology and timing. But technological advantages erode over time, and good timing doesn’t sustain movements alone over the long term. So a broader explanation of how Rails has continued to not only stay relevant but to grow its impact and community is needed. I propose that the enduring enabler has been and remains

Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, 3.2.22.1, and rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.3 have been released! Hello everyone and happy Monday! Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, and 3.2.22.1 have been released! These contain the following important security fixes, and it is recommended that users upgrade as soon as possible: CVE-2015-7576 Timing attack vulnerability in basic authentication in Action C

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first 2016 issue of This week in Rails. I’m Andy, and before diving in to contributions from this week, let’s briefly recap some stats from 2015. Our 12 editors released 50 issues summarizing over 6500 commits to Rails! Each issue is now being sent to over 4300 subscribers. What a great year! To celebrate, sweep up some confetti laying around from last weekend, toss

Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API mode, Rails command Rails 5.0! Can you believe it? We only just celebrated the tenth anniversary of Rails 1.0 a few days ago. Time flies when you’re having fun with good friends, and we’ve never had more fun or better friends in the Rails community, so no wonder it’s going swoosh! Now this is just the first beta release, but Rails 5.0.0.beta1 is already running

Please join us in welcoming Matthew Draper to the Rails core team! Matthew is a kick-ass collaborator. He’s gone above and beyond PRs and technical contributions (which are sharp and on-point) by mentoring student groups, by coaching beginning Rails developers through their first apps alongside experienced developers working through design decisions & tradeoffs, by volunteering forserving on the R

This year marked our fourth participation in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC). In this post we’d like to tell you a bit about this year’s projects: Asset Source Maps (Andrei Istratii) Andrei has added support for several types of Source Maps to Sprockets 4. With Source Maps users can see a readable version of their code inside Developer Tools (Javascript, CSS, etc.) after it’s been minified or compi

Hi everyone, I am happy to announce that Rails 4.2.4 and 4.1.13 have been released. No regressions were found so these releases include the same changes that the release candidates. CHANGES since 4.1.12 To view the changes for each gem, please read the changelogs on GitHub: Action Mailer CHANGELOG Action Pack CHANGELOG Action View CHANGELOG Active Model CHANGELOG Active Record CHANGELOG Active Sup