Wow. Well, this is… somewhat unexpected. And very, very cool.
No kidding, right? Personally, I’m excited. I think the Merb 2 / Rails 3 announcement makes a ton of sense (read the links above for details); Rails with a modular Merb-like architecture and a set of reasonable Rails-ish defaults is an epic win for both camps, if done right. It’s truly an exciting time to be a Ruby developer. Happy holidays everyone.