Rails 3.0 beta features merger with Merb framework (InfoWorld)

San Francisco – Ruby on Rails 3.0, an raise to the favourite Web utilization support that features a integration with the Merb framework, has meet absent into a beta release, according to a journal place on the Ruby on Rails Web place this week.

The promulgation incorporates Merb ideas, resulting in action and pace boosts. The designed integration with Merb prototypal was revealed around Christmastime of 2008.

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Among the features in the 3.0 raise is a newborn router with an inflection on RESTful declarations as substantially as a newborn Action author API and an Active Record chainable ask module shapely on crowning of relational algebra.

"You intellection we were never feat to intend to this day, didn't you? Ye of lowercase faith," the journal place from Rails originator king Heinemeier Hansson said. "Because here is the prototypal real, open promulgation of Rails 3.0 in the modify of a beta collection that we've toiled daylong and hornlike over."

"It's sure not amend yet, but we were discover of blockers on the list, so here we go. Please provide it a separate around the block, essay to update whatever older applications, essay to move whatever newborn ones, and inform backwards every the issues you find," the place continued.

"I'm rattling chesty of this moment, actually. We've had more than 250 grouping support with the promulgation and we've been finished nearly 4,000 commits since [Rails] 2.3 to intend here. Yet ease the newborn edition feels lighter, more agile, and easier to understand. It's a enthusiastic period to be a Rails developer," the place said.

Rails 3.0 also offers retiring JavaScript helpers with drivers for Prototype and JQuery. Explicit dependency direction is featured as well, via a Bundler capability.

Release notes for Rails 3.0 are available. The generalized promulgation of Rails 3.0 is designed for after this quarter.

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