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If you did not already read it, there are really cool christmas news on the Ruby on Rails Blog

The Merb Framework – the highly modified framework initially based on/inspired by the rails core and made to improve speed, concurrency and a small footprint – will be merged into “Rails 3.0”.

Let’s look at the Merb feature list to see what this means:

Merb is..

• ORM-agnostic (through plugins)
• JavaScript library agnostic (through plugins)
• template language agnostic (through plugins)
• thread safe (+ multiple file uploads)
• simple and optimized core without sacrificing functionality
• improvements

what I especially like is the modularity of Merb, compared to Rails

This is a rough overview of what Rails 3.0 will look like, having the Merb features:

• Optionally a minimum and full featured core
• A lot of performance improvements
• Framework agnosticism (JS, ORM, template and testing level)
• A better, more stable API (eg. for plugins)

When will we get Rails 3.0?

I guess this is very hard to predict :) but the goal is to have at least a Beta version ready for RailsConf 2009 in Las Vegas

I totally concur with the post on the ROR Weblog, Rails 3.0 will kick ass!