I may be wrong but I can't help seeing a little anti-Katz bias there. Beyond this 'cheap' psychological interpretation, I think the merb merge was mainly payin

I may be wrong but I can't help seeing a little anti-Katz bias there. Beyond this 'cheap' psychological interpretation, I think the merb merge was mainly paying the huge technical debt 'young rails' contracted in its fast growth. Rails 3 set the ground for the future. All big project go through this teenage phase, and if Rails 4 has so much potential today is because the 'alias_method_chain' and other quick hacks were cleaned out with well thought architectural principals - even though rack and streaming don't play well... Oh god and I haven't read the whole post yet...