### Top Story As you probably know, both Rails 3 and Bundler went final over the weekend. The Rails 3 release notes [are up](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done), as well as extensive coverage on the [Rails Guides page](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/). I'll also mention Jeremy McAnally's [Rails 3 Upgrade handbook](http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/)http, and Gregg Pollack's list of [great Rails...

### Book Status Still working on the legacy chapter. The sidebar here is that deliberately writing bad legacy code for purposes of using as examples in a book is a little challenging. It's got to be tangled enough to make the point that it's hard to clean, but small and...

Short today, but preparing some longer, more rant-y bits for the future... ### Book status Not much forward motion for the next few days, as I have a lot of other stuff to do, including preparing for [Chicago Ruby on June 1](http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoRuby/calendar/12674321/) and doing a bit of touch-up on [Obtiva's...

### Hey, where were you? Sorry about that, I spent most of last week running the Obtiva Ruby/Rails/TDD 4-day boot camp training, and I didn't have time to do this daily catchup. Hey, if you think you need me or somebody like me to come to your company and blather...