The much loved Ruby-on-Rails web application development platform has approached a beta of version 3. The most streamlined and powerful version to date. We can expect to see this some time around late January. To add to the good news, the final version is expected to shuffle out during the first quarter of 2010.

Ruby-on-Rails is loved by developers worldwide, given its ability to let developers simply bash out applications rather than requiring they focusing on actual software architecture. This makes great use of developer time, but poor use of the hardware resources required to run such an application.

To address this, a merger with an MVC system known as Merb is underway providing access to a library of plugins providing features, rather than one enourmous library at its core. This marridge also provides a clearer API for handling request routes while opening new mechanisms such as subdomain routing.

We expect that as Ruby-on-Rail grows, it will bring more neat web applications into the world, which is always a good thing.

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