Rails & Merb, working together!

You probably know the news: Rails & Merb are coming together to make Rails 3.0 in 2009!

You can read details from many sources, including:

And I’m sure others (sorry if I forgot anyone!).

We started Engine Yard because of Ruby on Rails and we’re very happy to support this cooperation between the two communities. Engine Yard folks who were working on Merb are now working toward Rails 3.0.

Thanks to everyone working on Rails and Merb for making the world a better place! I honestly believe that easier app development (and of course, deployment) does improve the world: it allows more people and their ideas to flourish, and that’s a good thing!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

About

I've been interested in technology & business for a long time, usually working with friends to start small, tech-related companies.

I co-founded Engine Yard in 2006 with three other guys. I served as CEO until Jan, 2009, when we started building an executive team who can really take EY far into the future.

I left Engine Yard in May, 2009 to try some new ideas. The first of those is PollyTrade, which allows stock trades to be placed via Twitter and executed in your brokerage account.

PollyTrade has hit some expected potential roadblocks, namely the desire of one of the brokers not to have trades submitted by their users via Twitter. I hope this will change over time.

One thing that's very cool to witness is the speed that modern development tools allow. PollyTrade was spec'd out on June 3rd and accepting beta users on June 26th. That's just 23 calendar days for code development, basic website, basic logo, etc.

Iteration is key, and faster/cheaper iteration is even better.

Lance Walley

Rails & Merb, working together!

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