I bought the book too which does seem to have died a long time ago. Surely Manning should be refunding their customers for buying a book which it looks like is never going to be produced.
On Jun 28, 5:39 pm, Julian Leviston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/soloisbuilt 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
