a new version of rails is always a step ahead. of course you can profit of any knowledge you gain on rails 2.3 since the most of it will still be true in rails 3. there will be new things in 3 and there will be some deprecated things, but basically it's still rails and not merb or anything else. don't worry too much. just keep on learning and coding...
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