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) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
