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I am getting excited about the Rails 3 release

I spent some time with Rails 3 pre last December but I have not done much since - I have been very busy this year. I installed the second release candidate tonight and have been kicking the tires again by starting a new application from scratch, getting used to the new command line interface, and reading a few online articles about new features and migration issues.

I used to use Merb a lot, and ever since the announcement of the Merb and Rails merge, I have been looking forward to the 3.0 release. I invested a lot of time learning Rails version 1.x, then 2.x, and I am enthusiastic about putting in the time for digging into 3.x.

Great news: Ruby 1.9.2 released

I am doing an install from svn head right now:

rvm install 1.9.2-head

and it is picking up the latest release OK:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_2

As an aside: I wonder how much Oracle's law suit against Google for a non-standard Java in Android will affect Java, Clojure, Scala, etc.? Probably not much at all, but this might be another small reason to favor Ruby :-)