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This is the first release to have major Merb influence. Rails 3.0 (possibly in May) will be the true merging of the projects.

• icey 18y ago
  I'm very excited for the confluence to occur. I've been looking around for a good web development stack to switch to for personal projects. I'm a .net guy during the day, but it's not enjoyable for me to work on. I have basic proficiency with Python, but I don't care for Django and Pylons doesn't have very good documentation. I am currently learning Clojure, but I get the feeling that I'd have to reinvent a lot of wheels to bring up a basic web development platform (on top of Compojure, I'd imagine). I plan on using Clojure down the road for some business logic I'm working on. It would be very nice to be able to keep all my heavy logic work in Clojure while using Rails on JRuby at some point down the road, so I think it's worthwhile for me to learn both. It's good to hear that they are making so much progress on the Rails core in the meantime. It is starting to sound like a much more robust platform than it did a couple of years ago.