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Merb and Rails Come Together for Rails 3

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I am absolutely excited about this news!! Yesterday, both the Merb and Rails camp have announced the news, so I won’t bother reiterating whats already been said. I’d rather talk about some of the major points that really get me excited about this announcement and how it is going to impact not only the history of Ruby on the web, but potentially web programming from this point on.

Fully Modular Core
I am happy that DHH and co have embraced the modularity concept that is one of the core ideals of the Merb project. Now, if you don’t want to Prototype as your JavaScript system, you can toss it and stick in jQuery, which will run 100% as well as the default. Although its 100% modular, the “Rails Way” is going to give you a smart set of defaults that you can completely customize to fit your needs!

I must admit, this is one of the sexiest things about Merb.

Speed is Quickly Becoming a Non-Issue
In the Ruby world, there is a ton of exciting innovation going on around building some amazing virtual machine technologies and really pushing the limits of what can be done with such an expressive and dynamic language. Also, we are seeing some fantastic developments on the deployment side of things that are making it not only extremely easy to deploy, but faster the serve requests as well.

So naturally, the next place to go for optimization is our framework. Merb has already made a ton of strides in making a thread-safe, and extremely fast framework. This development stack is going to scream in 2009!

Amazing  Base and Synergy
Between the Merb and Rails technologies and groups, there is going to be all kinds of new things to learn and all sorts of great people to work with and learn from. I am absolutely excited about what all of this means for the Ruby/Rails/Merb communities. We have got one of the fastest growing and fully-integrated technology stacks available for the internet today as an open source foundation.

With the emerging ecosystem of technology and thought that is occurring in this community, we are going to be seeing some amazing things in 2009.


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  1. Yehuda Katz on December 24, 2008 11:31 pm

    I’m reminded that just a short time ago, KirinDave posted that nothing interesting is happening in RubyLand. As you point out, Rails is shortly going to kick serious ass.

    PHP, Java, .Net: We’re coming for you!

  2. Derek P. on December 25, 2008 1:04 am

    Absolutely! Ruby had a bit of a lull in the last half of 2008, but that is going to change rapidly.