After nearly 2 years, thousands of commits, and with the help of 1600 developers it is done. Today Rails 3.0 has been released. Rails 3.0 not only has plenty of new and useful features, it also has been rewritten from the ground and is the basis of all future development. “Convention over Configuration” is still the principle, but with the addition of modularity. Assemble your own Rails stack without any restrictions. Most of Rails functionality can be replaced with other components. No more hacking/monkey patching to use Mongrel, CouchDb, Datamapper, Redis, Haml or some other hot technology.

Thanks to all Rails committers and the awesome community (nearly all plugins are already Rails 3 compatible). Technology predictions tend to
be wrong, but I think in this case it is easy to say Rails 3 will be a huge success.

A few links to get you started:

• Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)
• 34 Ruby on Rails 3 resources to get you started

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