I Am Not a Pr0n Star- Avoiding Unavoidable Associations. Liz Keogh responds to Matt's apology at The Merbist. Taking the angle of the psychology of subconscious associations, this article will hopefully help those still struggling to understand the on-going pr0n0gate controversy.

Pete Elmore has released Hoshi. "Hoshi is a library for creating real first-class HTML/XML views. So, unlike template libraries, you can take advantage of mixins, inheritance, and all the other wonderful features of Ruby's object system."

Daniel Spiewak laces up not only a DSL for Scala to call JRuby, but also a DSL for JRuby to run Scala.

Post at merbunity.com detailing the new, improved Merb::Cache.

Charles Oliver Nutter writes about the unfortunate controversy over implementing JRuby in 'The Elephant'.

The Waves team has released version 0.7.7. Named Briareus after a mythical Greek titan with a hundred arms, this release includes ActiveRecord support, Haml support , many more tests, and revised documentation. ORM can be chosen at app generation time with a simple switch. Once again many things either have changed or are changing below the surface, so check it out if you haven't for a while, or dive in for your first time.

After a significant amount of re-writing, the Waves framework has reached 0.7.5. Official announcement is here at the Hang Ten blog. New features range from Layers, a way of easily reusing code across applications where we have already begun to move many core functionalities, to a blackboard that acts as shared storage during request processing. Please feel free to join us in #waves on irc.freenode.net with any questions or just to jump in the fun that we are having on edge.

Dan Yoder introduces and explains Functor, a new approach to overloaded methods.