As of December 23, 2008, the Merb (Mongrel + Erb) project is being merged with Rails, and a version with the best features of both will be released in 2010 under the name Rails 3.

Main additions in Rails 3.0

- Brand new router with an emphasis on RESTful declarations
- New Action Mailer API modeled after Action Controller
- New Active Record chainable query language built on top of relational algebra
- Unobtrusive Javascript helpers with drivers for Prototype and jQuery

RailsCarma is going to WebHosting Day 2010, the largest web hosting event in Europe, to be held at Bruehl, Germany from March 17th-19th.