Yukihiro Matsumoto (“Matz”), the creator of Ruby, is a professional programmer who worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matz is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He’s released several open source products, including email, the emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in emacs lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that has become known outside of Japan.

In the near future, the adoption of Ruby on Rails will grow more than that of other technologies with 22 percent and 24 percent of respondents expecting to use these platforms in the next 12 months.

It’s been almost eight months since the last major release of Rails introduced RJS, respond to, eager loading, and much more. It is about time latest batch of big ideas was introduced, polished in the interim. Since this is a major new release. Josh Susser, its creator, said that it represents only a step to the future developments. There are already new features that may not appear to have the immediate glitz and glamour the likes of RJS; they still represent a big fundamental shift in how a lot of rails applications will be created from this days forth.

REST and Resources, and general HTTP appreciation, is the star of Rails 1.2. The bulk of these features were originally introduced to the general public. In the future, we can start thinking how the application could become more RESTful. The biggest benefit is hidden: a clear approach to controller design that will reduce complexity for the implementer and result in an application that behaves as a much better citizen on the general web.

The help the transition, there is a scaffold generator that will create a stub CRUD interface, just like the original scaffolder, but in a RESTful manner. This release looks like a fantastic, great release, having spectacular promises for the future.

Ruby will continue to grow and change. The above information is only what we think we know at this point in that process. For the past couple of years, Ruby seems to have been popping up all over the place.