I've put together some of my thoughts about current state of Ruby ORMs, mentioning ActiveRecord, DataMapper and Sequel. Take a look if you're interested in ORM development efforts: The State of Ruby ORM
If you're migrating Merb applications to Rails3 or you're about to start doing that then make sure you check out a helper library we've written recently called merb-to-rails3 which will ease the (small) pain of the migration.
CodeRack is a coding contest dreamed up by a group of the Ruby programmers at Lunar Logic Polska who were excited about the possibilities of Rack middleware.