Well I think it morphed into a Rails 3 book - but the point is  
customer service 101 stipulates that you really should tell your  
customers what's going on...

Julian.

On 29/06/2009, at 4:32 AM, Alistair Holt wrote:

>
> 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)
>
> >


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