High off Baltimore Pandemic and Yellow Tops, I believe we promised a release candidate shortly after RailsConf. As things usually go in open source, we gorged ourselves on fixes and improvements instead. But all to your benefit. We’ve had 842 commits by 125 authors since the release of the last beta!

Now it’s time to just say good is good enough, otherwise we could keep on with this forever. So please welcome the Rails 3 release candidate! You install, as always, with gem install rails --pre

David Heinemeier Hansson

Over on the official Rails blog, DHH talks about today's release of the first release candidate of the much awaited Rails 3.0.

Note: You might still find RI's Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources to Get You Going useful too.