
The latest and greatest version of the open source web development framework - Ruby on Rails - is now available. Version 2.0 is a web framework that supports the use of REST-ful web services and says bye bye to SOAP.
The Ruby Conference concluded Sunday with Ezra Zygmuntowicz's talk on Mongrel -- entitled Building Custom Mongrel Handlers for Speed and Concurrency -- and a discussion on Rubinius by Evan Phoenix.
To highlight the merits of their offerings they note a few philosophical issues with Ruby and Rails, respectively.

This weekend marks the second annual Ruby conference, hosted by SDForum. Leaping on a unique opportunity to "drink from a ruby-colored firehose," we got down here at 9 AM yesterday morning and prepared for code overload.
I feel like I've been dropped into a live-action Anandtech forum.