Or perhaps it should be “Yet Another Rails-Like Framework”… In any case Ruby Waves was released today. I read through the tutorial and liked some of the things I saw. Ultimately Rails not being thread-safe is a huge problem that needs to be resolved if it is going to remain a viable framework compared with the other Ruby frameworks such as Merb and Waves. Waves is heavy on magic and in that sense I suppose it is taking Rails to it’s logical extension. I find it interesting that it uses Sequel instead of ActiveRecord as an ORM. I also wonder if any of these frameworks will work on development tools. That’s one area that Rails has been successful and a reason to stick with it and hope that Rails becomes thread-safe (especially in time for Ruby 1.9).