The GitHub Blog

At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.

Learn more about how we are bringing encapsulation to our views as we scale to over 4,500 templates in our Ruby on Rails monolith.

On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.

On August 15th GitHub celebrated a major milestone: our main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! 🎉 In total the project took a year and a half to upgrade from

Congratulations to Alastair! He won our Frozen Rails ticket. Alastair is a Ruby developer that hails from Trondheim, Norway. He has contributed to Rails and has a collection of open source projects of his own,

Thanks to the people behind Frozen Rails, we have another conference pass to give away. This time, you’ll spend two days in the beautiful Helsinki. Same rules as before, fork this gist and answer the

The first of our tickets for Magma Rails goes to Fernando. Signing up in our first year, Fernando has been a GitHub member longer than the others who entered and live in Mexico. He spends

It’s time for another conference ticket give-away. This time it’s for Magma Rails, a Ruby/Rails conference in Mexico. To celebrate their second year, we have 2 tickets to give away. Same deal as last time,

We’ll be out in Baltimore next week, RailsConf’in around town, catchin’ some rays by the harbor, seein’ the sights. Did you know Baltimore.org says “Baltimore-it’s not so much a place as an experience”? We’ll be

The Ruby and Rails European Conference is being held on October 21-22nd at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. Also, Corey Haines is putting on another Code Retreat on the 23rd. I’ll be speaking there about