I've been using rails since 2005. Here are my random observations: I've never been a merb user, so I cant speak for how much I miss merb. Sinatra seems to take

I've been using rails since 2005. Here are my random observations: I've never been a merb user, so I cant speak for how much I miss merb. Sinatra seems to take the place of merb. I do like the result of the merge, rails 3. Yehuda Katz did a hell of a job making rails easier to understand and modify under the hood (with railties, engines, stuff like that). Bundler works a lot better than config.gem. Adding in rack was huge. I'm still not a huge fan of the sprockets asset pipeline. Jammit could be a better solution. I dont understand why @tenderlove replaced josh peek's router and replaced it with journey. Rails generators for coffeescript should generate tests just like the ruby files do. Something like phantomjs seems to do the trick.