The TorqueBox Project is announcing that TorqueBox with version number 3.1.2 / 4.0.0 Beta 1 is already available to download.

What is TorqueBox ?

TorqueBox is A Ruby application platform integrating Ruby on Rails and extending it with other features not included in the RoR framework by default . Ruby on Rails is considered the best written MVC framework around. It is a powerful Ruby application development platform, perfect for creating large scale, dynamic applications, services and websites.TorqueBox is a development platform that extends Ruby on Rails with some features missing from the default RoR distribution, features normally found in almost all professional Java frameworks.TorqueBox was built on top of the JBoss AS and JRuby, a mixture of technologies that allows developers to support more complex features in Ruby like messaging, daemons, clustering, caching, scheduling, and many other more.On top of these, TorqueBox also supports JDBC, Rack and Sinatra. This is changelog for TorqueBox version 3.1.2 / 4.0.0 Beta 1 :

• Java 8 support
• Infinispan 6 support
• Config.ru now loaded on boot by default

You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: torquebox.org