Rails Framework: Web Articles

• Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails 2.3.9 Released
  David Heinemeier Hansson
   Rails 2.3.9 continues bug fixes in the 2.3 branch and acts as a transition bridge to 3.0.
• Riding Rails: Rails 3.0: It's ready!
  David Heinemeier Hansson
   Official Rails 3.0 Release post by DHH
• Rails 2.1: Now With Better Integrated Caching
  Rob Anderton
  Great walkthrough of the new support in Rails 2.1 for Memcached as a first class caching solution.
• What's New in Edge Rails: Pluggable Controller Caching
  Ryan Daigle
  
• What's New in Edge Rails: UTC-based Migration Versioning
  Ryan Daigle
  
• Riding Rails: Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc
  David Heinemeier Hansson
  Announcement of the Rails 2.1 release.
• What's New in Edge Rails: Dirty Objects
  Ryan Daigle
  
• What's New in Edge Rails: Partial Updates
  Ryan Daigle
  
• What's New in Edge Rails: Has Finder Functionality
  Ryan Daigle
  
• Rails 2.1 Time Zone Support: An Overview
  Geoff Buesing
  
• What's New in Edge Rails: Gem Dependencies
  Ryan Daigle
  
• Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 Released
  Peter Cooper
  
• Advanced Rails Caching.. on the Edge
  Aaron Batalion
  Using edge side includes (ESI) for advanced caching in Rails applications.
• Plugins - Seamless Database Pool
  
  
• Pagination in Ruby On Rails using will_paginate plugin
  Nasir Jamal
  How to convert from legacy Rails 1 pagination to the Rails 2 compatible will_paginate plugin. Unlike classic pagination, will_paginate works from a model, so you can keep writing fat models.
• Rails 2.1 Time Zone Support: An Overview
  Geoff Buesing
  Rails 2.1 will have major improvements to time zone handling. This article explains all.
• Feeds for Free
  
  Utilizing microformats (hAtom) to kill two birds with one view utilizing the mofo plugin.
• Starling and Asynchronous Tasks in Ruby on Rails
  Rany Keddo and Bjorn Wolf
  Workling is a wrapper around asynchronous task runners such as Starling and Spawn.
• Acts As Taggable Tag Cloud
  
  Walk through of how to visualize acts_as_taggable content as a tag cloud with CSS.
• Rails 2 Upgrade Notes
  Ben Smith
  
• Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: Preview Release
  David Heinemeier Hansson
  
• Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It's done!
  David Heinemeier Hansson
  
• ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails
  
  
• Book Review: Pro Active Record
  Josh Susser
  An insightful and detailed book review, which points out some of the unfortunate errors in this otherwise useful book.
• Ruby on Rails routing demystified
  Obie Fernandez
  Article on Rails routing, excerpted from the excellent book The Rails Way.
• An Attachment Walked Into A Bar. Was That U, Fu?
  Sarah Gray
  A walkthrough using the attachment_fu plugin, including some testing and various useful links.
• Rails 2.0 and Scaffolding Step by Step
  Sean Lynch
  
• What's New in Edge Rails: Easier Timezones
  Ryan Daigle
  
• Consolidating your app's constants
  Tim Lucas
  How to create a module that can consolidate all of your constants into one easy to maintain place in your app. Also explains how to make it fully configurable from environment setup files.
• Talking Rails 2.0 with David Heinemeier Hansson
  
  
• Rails 2.0 - What's a Newbie to Do?
  
  
• InfoQ: Rails 2.0 - What's a Newbie to Do?
  
  
• 10 Ruby On Rails Plugins You Should Be Using
  Media72: Web Hosting Services
  
• Google's OpenSocial with Ruby on Rails
  Bamboo Blog
  Plugin for integrating OpenSocial with Rails.
• Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial
  Gregg Pollack
  Excellent tutorial on the various forms of caching in Rails and how and when to use them.
• Environments and the Rails initialisation process
  Tim Lucas
  
• Almost Effortless >> Redirect old URLs in Rails
  
  
• Monkey-patching Rails: Extending Routes #2
  
  Shows how to extend Rails routing to enable recognition by host, domain, or subdomain.
• Ideas For Dozens: learns_to use acts_as_versioned
  Greg Borenstein
  An introductory article on using the acts_as_versioned plugin.