Rails 3 Gets Supersized With Merb

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"The Ruby on Rails (RoR) open source framework is about to get more modular and faster -- thanks to some benefits of its recent merger with Ruby rival Merb. "

"Ruby rival Merb" -- what a shame, I've started to avoid the mainstream online media and paid authors in favor of simple bloggers

I don't think that's wrong as such. Imagine there were two sports teams in Chigaco that merged. You could say that team Y merged with "Chicago rival X" without meaning that X was a rival to Chigaco.

>> "Rails is already great on performance and is much faster than PHP, but there is work we can do to make it even faster," Katz said.

Rails is faster than PHP. Interesting. I wonder how Rails compares to Python, or Java, or... Ruby?

I'm gonna assume that was a misquote.

No it's not a misquote. Yehuda detailed his benchmarks agsinst PHP during the Merb Camp Keynote. See these slides: http://www.slideshare.net/wycats/merb-camp-keynote-presentat...

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