I watched a recording of David Heinemeier Hansson Rails Conference 2006 Keynote Address not too long ago and got me pretty interested in the newer way of thinking and programming for web applications.
The new version of Ruby on Rails that has the new features that David Heinemeier talked about in his keynote address finally released. It also has better support for UTF-8 and implemented REST into the core and deprecated old functions that were replaced with better functions and plug-ins.
I personally don’t know much about ruby at the moment, but learning it now as well as the REST method and looking forward to the final results.