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Rails 3

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
RubyGems,
Performance & Scalability,
Web Frameworks,
Dynamic Languages,
Ruby on Rails

Yehuda Katz explains Rails 3: the performance improvements, the new architecture, the influence of Merb, and much more. Also: a look at the Bundler tool.

News about Merb

First Rails 3 Beta Released

Community
Java,
.NET,
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Ruby on Rails,
Security

The first beta of Rails 3 is available. Rails 3 is a major rewrite of the codebase bringing with it stable APIs and design decisions inspired by Merb, cleaner internals, performance improvements and much more. InfoQ takes a look at the changes in Rails 3, and on which Ruby implementations it runs.

Rails 2.3.3 Released and the State of Rails 3.0 and Merb

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Ruby on Rails

Rails 2.3.3 is now available. Among the usual bug fixes, it adds a few new features like ActiveRecord touch functionality and some JSON related API changes. Also: a look at what's up with Rails 3 and Merb 1.1.

Ruby VM Roundup: Ruby 1.9.2 Preview 1, Ruby Versions Site

Community
Ruby
Topics
Runtimes,
Performance & Scalability,
Dynamic Languages

Ruby 1.9.2 Preview 1 is now available and brings API improvements such as Method#parameters, GC optimization for long lived objects, and more. Also: to keep up to speed with Ruby implementations, David A. Black announced ruby-versions.net which provides a long list of MRI versions as well as JRuby, Rubinius and REE installations.

Rack 1.0 Released

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web Frameworks,
Ruby on Rails,
Web Servers

Rack, the "minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks" has finally seen its 1.0 release. We talked to Rack developer Christian Neukirchen to learn what his plans for the future of Rack are.

Presentations about Merb

Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter

Community
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby on Rails

In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.

Interviews about Merb

Jonathan Dahl on Programming and Minimalism

Community
Ruby
Topics
Language,
Ruby on Rails,
Programming

In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Jonathan Dahl explains ways to write clear Ruby code and how to use minimalism as a guiding principle.

Luke Galea on Ruby and Erlang

Community
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
Web Frameworks,
Ruby on Rails

In this interview taped at FutureRuby, Luke Galea talks about his experience with building sites using Ruby and Merb as well as integrating them using Erlang in the messaging layer.

Matt Todd on Halcyon

Community
Ruby
Topics
Web Frameworks

In this interview recorded at RubyFringe, Matt Todd talks about his work on the Halcyon framework and how to stop worrying and simple start implementing ideas, dumb or not.