Do Ruby on Rails Developers Need Merb?

The open source Ruby programming language is growing fast in terms of adoption, thanks in part to the Rails framework — often referred to as Ruby on Rails. Rails, however, isn’t the only game in town when in comes to Ruby frameworks.

A new, open source Ruby framework called Merb is now taking shape with the promise of being even more adaptable to developers’ needs than Rails. Merb 1.0 is currently in development with a final release targeted for the end of October.