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Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta

Posted by kdawson on from the insert-gems-and-trains-reference dept.

Curlsman informs us that the first beta of Ruby on Rails 3.0 has been released (release notes here). Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson blogged that RoR 3.0 "feels lighter, more agile, and easier to understand." This release is the first the Merb team has participated in. Merb is a model-view-controller framework written in Ruby, and they joined the RoR development effort over a year ago. Reader Curlsman asks, "So, is version 3 of RoR going to be a big deal, more of the same (good or bad), or just churning technology?"

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  1. Re:Cynicism = good sign by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "First responses" were years ago. The people who are still bitching about it are people who have not gotten to know it well.

    I have many years experience in programming, but I have spent the last 4+ doing Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. And I love it. I have yet to find something another languages and frameworks do that RoR will not, and usually RoR does it simpler and more easily.

    It does in fact scale quite well, and while it is relatively slow, all interpreted dynamic languages are.

    There is a learning curve, probably a bit more than most languages, but once you get past the hump it's a pretty nice ride. Most of the objections are coming from people who haven't gotten there.