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Exact solutions of the non-linear equations of General Relativity without spherical symmetry are notoriously difficult to discover. For example, it took roughly 50 years to generalize the static four dimensional Schwarzschild black hole to the rotating case - the Kerr solution.In the past couple of years, tremendous progress in the generation of charged black hole solutions in higher dimensions has been possible by combining solution-generating and dimensional reduction techniques, both of which have been known for many decades. These methods culminated with the construction of the most general black ring solution of a certain gravitational theory.The invited review Charged black rings from inverse scattering by Jorge Rocha and collaborators, soon to be published in the journal General Relativity and Gravitation, sums up recent advances obtained in the generation of charged black ring solutions in higher dimensions and pedagogically describes the methods employed.