The Rails team has finally released the Rails 3 beta, after more than a year since the Rails and Merb teams started working on this release. You can read all about it at the official Rails blog, but I figured I’d take the opportunity to share my take on the release. First of all, you’re probably sick of hearing this, but we’ve done far, far more than we ever expected. A lot of that happened in the
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