I've been hearing that by Xmas for Ruby2 and the Rails guys have been doing quite a bit of work to make sure Rails2 is compatible with the upcoming Ruby release

I've been hearing that by Xmas for Ruby2 and the Rails guys have been doing quite a bit of work to make sure Rails2 is compatible with the upcoming Ruby release. I'm not sure how much will need to change, but they have indeed been working towards making it compatible.