Merbunity is a new site dedicated to "news, projects, and tutorials" related to the Merb Web framework (increasingly a common alternative to Rails). It's very early days, but it's well designed, and the initial content is good. It feels a little like a Ru...

Hours ago, David Heinemeier Hansson announced informally on Twitter: Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged, the gems are on the beta server, official announcement shortly. But no need holding you back from trying it. New features include built-in timezone support...

Most Ruby developers should be familiar with Rack, an interface / library that abstracts away a lot of the banalities of hooking up application code to HTTP servers. It's used by several Ruby Web application frameworks already, some as a default - such as...