While I do feel like this could be a good thing, I also feel like the rug has been pulled out from under me. As the lead developer for a small Ruby web shop, I was able to push Merb into a couple interesting commercial projects. We have projects dating back to version 0.4.X. In the Spring, I built a green PR site for Whirlpool/Method that calculated the water quantity and usage of a user's household. It was so calculation and database heavy that it really shined under Merb. Sadly the project died after it was built for lack of marketing funding.
Afterwards, we built greenwala.com. That is when the decision to use Merb turned into an investment in the framework. We had an excellent CMS built in Rails that met all our client's needs, but decided to rebuild in Merb because our company believed in Merb's speed, modularity and philosophy. We eschewed the numerous rails plugins that would have made our life so much easier, because we wanted to build a new set of tools for Merb. We struggled with openid, pagination, and facebook, using a much smaller pool of competent developers. We had plans to extract our CMS and possibly the social network into a slice. Just recently I started extracting the generic parts of facebooker into a gem to open source. That way there could be an adjunct rails/merb/mack/whatever gem that worked with framework specific items. After the announcement, doing that kind of work seems foolish. Although I haven't made significant contributions to datamapper or Merb, I have been an ardent Merb user and an evangelist for this new little framework that could. Perhaps I flatter myself to think that Merb owes people like me, early adopters, some notice or input before this kind of change. I have a few questions for the new core team that will help me figure out where to invest my coding and open source time: 1) What is the process going to be like for adapting existing Merb plugins to the hybrid framework? 2) Can slices be used in Rails 3? And if so wow will slices have to be changed to fit in? 3) Will there be a performance hit for using legacy rails plugins? Thanks for listening ... really! On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:49 AM, mikhailov <[email protected]>wrote: > > What you think about new logo? > http://www.railsgeek.com/2008/12/23/rails-3-rails-and-merb-merge > > On Dec 24, 4:21 pm, Samo Korosec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, at least DHH ends his "adressing the concerned 4%" post at > > > > http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/36-work-on-what-you-use-and-share-t... > > > > classy; > > > > "So kumbaja motherfuckers and merry christmas!" > > > > First there's an annoucement that feels like a slap in the face to the > > merb community and then we get a nice taste of what's coming, yay! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
