Looks like Ruby on Rails 1.1 has been released, filling in some of the areas that I feel it needs covered in order to drive further adoption.
Rails is the framework upon which Basecamp is written- a framework that abstracts some of the "AJAX" approaches that have their following among developers. It remains to be seen how an AJAX, or ROR site can be made to perform well in search engines, since so much of their content is contained in modifiable DOM stuff.
Scott Raymond has a month-old page describing the many features available in Ruby on Rails 1.1, a rather technical read but if you're interested in this post you're probably going to grok the listing. I'm pretty impressed, especially with the new idea of using an entirely Ruby-based way of dynamically generating Javascript which is sent to the browser over AJAX calls. This is a technical way of saying "your web app can use Javascript without you having to write any Javascript" in many cases.
I'm quite tempted now to take this for a test drive. Integration with Scriptaculous, a nice approach to dealing with databases, and a seemingly elegant separation of model, view, and controller make RoR an appealing package.
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"It remains to be seen how an AJAX, or ROR site can be made to perform well in search engines, since so much of their content is contained in modifiable DOM stuff."
What are you talking about? There's nothing about Rails that *forces* you to build pages with Ajax. It's convenient to use Ajax, but it's certainly not an architectural requirement.