Ruby on Rails 3.0 pulls into station with Merb in tow
arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/08/ruby-on-rails-30-released
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Rails 3.0, a popular Web framework written in the programming language Ruby, was released Sunday after several years of development. In a way, the release is just as much of a political win for the Ruby and Web development ecosystem as it is technological one. The biggest story of this release is the successful incorporation of a competing project. Read the comments on this post