Rails and Merb Merge by Yehuda Katz or The Future of Rails 3.0
Engine Yard has a new offering called [Solo](http://www.engineyard.com/solo/)
ActionORM is a way of specifying an abstraction around an object. It makes any
ORM look like ActiveRecord. He mentioned Rack integration.
Merb provides some middleware. Rails added various middleware. It’s easy to use different kinds of middleware stack pieces.
Orchestra – an idea to build a module that is a common instrumenting framework
for SQL and web frameworks.
Speed of languages: Ruby 1.9 and JRuby are very close to Perl in speed. He showed Python 2 as
faster than Ruby 1.9 and Perl. Ruby 1.8.6 is the slowest of the comparisons he
had posted. I just hope we all remember that speed benchmarks aren’t worth much.
He spoke quite a bit about community agreement and standards. Perhaps that’s a
sign of the growing maturity of Ruby.