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News from RailsConf

The annual RailsConf just kicked off, and as usual for conferences, news of new releases is trickling out. This year's most significant changes include two new implementations of Ruby that can run Rails, a social performance-tuning application, and a new deployment scheme for larger applications.

All in all, these present a picture of a maturing Rails, readier than ever for serious use.



Open Source Quality Is Good, Getting Better

Coverity recently used its code analysis tools on more than 250 open source projects, in order to assess the general code quality of the software applications. The tests indicated that open source software is already of high quality -- but more interestingly, it found that the code had improved over time, with fewer defects detected this time than previously. What does it mean to find that open source software is continually improving?


Can Rails Scale? Twitter Raises Some Questions

Ruby on Rails is one of the hottest open-source technologies around, with many developers calling it the next big thing. And indeed, many new Web sites have been created in Rails -- most notably Twitter. But Rails has long been dogged by accusations that it is too slow and unscalable for enterprise applications, and it didn't help to learn that Twitter might be abandoning Rails, partly or completely, because of these issues. Do Twitter's problems point to an underlying weakness in Rails?