Hi On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Yehuda Katz <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a pretty simplistic view of the situation. I think you're > overemphasizing the (rather minor, imho) differences in your mind and > underemphasizing the philosophical sameness. I'm not downplaying the > annoyance of having to change things, but saying that the "learning" is not > transferrable is really just not true.
It was more of a sound bite than a critique. No one said the learning is 'not transferrable'. I just said it was limited, or at least, it feels limited. I know that I have several apps released and I have not moved to the latest merb yet because, without some work, old versions don't run with new versions of merb installed. I have recently installed the later merbs in a silo so they won't impact my current development on older sites (old being defined less than 6mo). Moving fast is good, but there may be a too fast. I think you recognized that with the introduction of an API. There are several new features in merb that I will have to learn (hear the non transferrable part here?). As I understand it, routes are new. Then there's all this talk about slices and nested controllers and the complexities that it brings. It may be that alot of general web programming (merb_helpers) does not change, but the freight-train of merb_core keeps running me down as soon as I get a chance to poke my head up and see what's coming next. But, I don't mind you guys moving fast. I'm just one person, and a dim web person at that, so any movement would probably be too fast. Just be pleased to know that on the hot days in Austin, I can stand by the merb development tracks and be cooled by the rushing breeze as merb_core races by. :) Long live Merb, or Rails3, or whatever its called. Jim > -- Yehuda > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Jim Freeze <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:27 PM, CRS <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Merb is merging, which would be easier/better to go from merb to Rails >> >> 3.0, or from Rails 2.0 to Rails 3.0? >> > >> > I've been into Merb just over a month after coming from Rails. From >> > what >> > I've heard, you can go with you're most comfortable with. It's gonna' >> > be >> > "footprints in the sand" >> > (http://www.frtommylane.com/stories/God/protector/footprints.htm) on >> > both >> > sides, Rails or Merb. >> > >> > Me? I'm very confident about letting Merb carry me. >> >> I'm confident I'm going to be writing my own web framework sometime in >> the future. >> >> Seems like if a web project takes more than 2 months, the following >> project is using a new framework, so the learning that you can carry >> on to the next project is very limited. >> >> >> -- >> Jim Freeze >> >> > > > > -- > Yehuda Katz > Developer | Engine Yard > (ph) 718.877.1325 > > > > -- Jim Freeze --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
