Hello everyone,

a new version of Nitro was just released.

Homepage: http://www.navel.gr/nitro
Download: http://www.rubyforge.com/projects/nitro

This is considered a preview release, to keep developers investigating
nitro synced with the latest changes. A standalone version of Og is
also released.

here are the release notes:

This is a preview release, the api for the new features is not
finalized. This early release gives other developers to offer
suggestions
on the final form of those features.

Most notable additions:

* Og many_to_many relations with auto generation of the join table.
* Og has_one relation.
* PHP-style nested output buffering.
* Rails-style Filters.
* autoreload services.
* complile time evaluation of ruby code in templates.
* improved pager ui.
* initial version of FormBuilder.
* initial version of new_app wizard.
* Improved Blog example.

and... the nitro logo :)

some words about Nitro:

Nitro is an efficient, yet simple engine for developing
professional Web Applications using the Ruby language.
Nitro aims to provide a robust infrastructure for scalable
web applications that can be distributed over a server cluster.
However, Nitro can also power simple web applications for
deployment on intranets or even personal computers.
Nitro integrates the powerful Og Object-Relational mapping
library.

Suggestions, ideas, bug reports are welcome!
have fun,
George Moschovitis