Rails和Merb合并为一个项目，这不是愚人节新闻

刚刚准备睡觉的，突然看到这条消息，刚刚发布的，而且，它是真的。千言万语归到一句话:Merb2就是Rails3！ 估计现在JE的各位名记现在正在梦乡吧？ 不好意思，被小生抢先了。

段落大意：今天是个好日子，Merb team会跟Rails team一起合作，将Merb中的与众不同的东西结合到rails中。

一个直接的影响是：现在正在写的几本merb相关的书像merb in action、beginning merb估计要大改特改了。

OK，俺也睡觉去了，想想其实俺也挺八卦的，唉

引用

Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation.

Before talking tech, and even going into the details of the announcement, I want to assure everyone that the incredible members of the thriving Merb community are top priority, and that this could not have been possible without every one of them.

Merb is an open, ever-changing project, and some its best ideas have come from not-core regular-Joe community members. It’s gotten where it has because of the community, and the community will get us even further in the future. Your ideas, feedback and even complaints will be 100% welcome in the future, just as they have been in the past. I believe in the tremendous value an open community and just generally open attitude bring to the table, and am counting on those things to continue ushering in the future of Ruby.

On to the news: beginning today, the Merb team will be working with the Rails core team on a joint project. The plan is to merge in the things that made Merb different. This will make it possible to use Rails 3 for the same sorts of use-cases that were compelling for Merb users. Effectively, Merb 2 is Rails 3.

详细消息请点击 http://yehudakatz.com/2008/12/23/rails-and-merb-merge/

还有 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/23/2135246

rails官方blog http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3