Please give a warm welcome to José Valim and Carl Lerche as they both join the Rails core team. Both guys have been key contributors to the Rails 3 development and both have made it into the top 10 of all-time Rails contributors. It’s an honor to have them on the team!

Google recently publicly released their new programming language, Go. I’ve known about this for some time, having worked for the big G while it was in development, although not directly involved.

Google has plenty of special purpose languages, but this is the first general purpose language to come out of Mountain View. That fact alone makes it quite interesting. Add to it that some of the original C and UNIX people are involved, and it becomes something that requires investigation.

We’ve been pretty busy on the blog this summer reviewing some of the interesting technologies that the Ruby and Rails worlds are working with. We tried to mix in some introductory materials and some more advanced ones. In case you missed them, we thought we’d do a quick review, particularly since we’ve had quite an increase in blog readership over the Summer.

Over the past few months, Rails core team member Yehuda Katz has posted a series of great blog articles describing some of the process and technique he’s used while coding Rails 3 with Carl Lerche. In case you haven’t followed his blog posts, I thought I’d repost them here for your educational reading.

Rails 3: The Great Decoupling
is about decoupling components like ActionController and ActionView.