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So Rails is quickly approaching THE dreadful status of 1.0. Interesting changes in this last push: database agnostic schemas are an interesting additions, which is likely to trigger some advances in the Rails RAD/IDE field. Stubs scripts, plugins, better session control and initialization changes are good improvements.
But for my own, small, personal use, rake freeze_gems - which embed a specific Rails version for deployment - is going to be most immediate and helpful change.