Yeah I'm pretty crapped off that the book that I paid for is apparently not coming from manning any more... and manning don't reply to my emails.
Julian. On 29/06/2009, at 2:24 AM, scottmotte wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
