Delayed upgrade to the open source Web development framework features Merb influences in areas such as speed and plug-in capabilities
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Without further ado, a release candidate of the popular open source Ruby on Rails 3.0 Web development framework has finally been made available, according to a blog post early this week.
The release candidate, which is usually the final stage before a general release of software, had been expected in early June at the end of the RailsConf technical conference. Instead, a fourth beta release was issued at the time.
“As things usually go in open source, we gorged ourselves on fixes and improvements instead. But all to your benefit. We’ve had 842 commits by 125 authors since the release of the last beta,” said Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson, in the blog post. Rails users can access the release candidate via their RubyGems capability. Gems is the Rails library packaging system.