On Ruby Inside: Engine Yard Takes $15 Million - A major validation of the Rails hosting space.
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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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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,…
Josh Symonds explains "pretty blocks" in Rails 2.1, how to use them, and how to define your own.
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Patrick McKenzie discovered, the hard way, that serialized columns are not updated on save with Rails 2.1 since amended hashes are not seen as "dirty." He presents some workarounds.
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Ben Curtis demonstrates RESTful Searching in Rails.
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Noel Rapping demonstrates more named scope awesomeness, namely using named scopes to chain together find conditions.
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The definitive Rails reference - a gazllion pages long and awesome throughout. A true Rails "bible."
An awesomely illustrated Rails book for beginners - a great way to learn Rails
The 3rd edition of the canonical Rails book from Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails himself.