Rails and Merb Web frameworks agree to merge [Video]

Open-source rivals Rails and Merb plan to merge their projects into the forthcoming Rails 3 release

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The Web development frameworks Rails and Merb have decided to end their rivalry and join forces in a single project, they said Tuesday.

Both are open-source development frameworks for creating Web applications and services in the Ruby programming language. Rails has been around since about 2004, while Merb emerged earlier this year as what many see as a faster, more lightweight alternative.

[ For a closer look at the Rails IDEs, check out the InfoWorld Lab test “Climb aboard Ruby on Rails” ]

A rivalry developed between the two that has been “tearing apart the community,” Merb creator Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote in a blog post . So the developers behind the projects have hashed out a plan to merge them into the forthcoming Rails 3 release.

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