I'd would agree with Ezra that Merb is solid. I've built 3 production apps and working on a fourth.
However, even though Merb was solid, there was a lot of good stuff planned for Merb 1.1 back on March 2nd, 2009. (but these weren't promises just hopes) - ruby 1.9 compatibility - namespaced applications - active orm - run_later - thor improvements There was the impression/promise that Merb apps would provide a migration path to Rails 3. That's probably my biggest concern right now. Additionally, I'm still in the camp that it was a mistake to go to Rails. It's been months of refactoring work for Yehuda - the majority of which was already a core part of merb it seems to me. And I know for a fact Yehuda has been very very busy. He deserves a medal for taking on that code. You've seen his blog posts. Holy cow it's a ton of work refactoring rails. I think the Merb/Rails framework would have been quite further along if half the effort in refactoring rails was put towards Merb. Having said all that, these are just my opinions. I haven't contributed any code, and these guys know better than a non-committer like me. I've had the pleasure of meeting Matt, and I can say that we are lucky as a community to have such smart and giving dudes - Yehuda, Matt, Carl, Ezra and others. On Jun 27, 11:07 pm, Nicholas Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > Only thing I'm keen for is the run_later fixes for using with passenger... > Since I only have one app that needs run_later in production and that is > only for updating something once a month. I simply spool up a thin instance > on another port and update. Shut it down after it is done and I'm on my way. > > I've nearly finished a 2nd production merb app and everything is great :) > > All the funky stuff coming in the router would be "nice to have" - it is not > like I need them or my app wont work... > > Merb right now works really well and is very flexible. I say kudos to the > merb dev team and thanks for a solid framework that lets me get on with what > I want to do ;) > > Nick > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > On Jun 27, 2009, at 8:34 PM, MyMerb wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > I'd like to chime in and say that I am still happily building apps > > with merb,http://engineyard.com/solois built on merb. I don't find > > that there is anything I'm missing or that there are any features or > > major bugs stopping me from building apps with merb. > > > If merb works for you then use it, it is very stable and runs well > > in > > production. If you need the newest shiniest features all the time then > > rails is probably getting more love these days and may be a better > > option for you. > > > I'll let Yehuda and Matt chime in on the other questions > > specifically > > but I just wanted to say that merb is solid as is, it works and runs > > very well in production. I think merb is kind of feature complete and > > extensible enough that you can build whatever you want with it as a > > solid foundation. > > > Cheers- > > Ezra (happy merb user) > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
