Here's some unbiased thoughts - at least our thoughts. We got tired of the increasing complexity and continuous changes in Rails so we looked for something else - we found Merb, really liked it, especially DataMapper. But just at the time we were going to switch a big project to Merb, the Rails 3 merge was announced. Just at this time we discovered Sinatra here was a really clean, simple framework that also worked with DataMapper. The only drawback was some fewer features - testing, helpers, and a bigger user base.
So we had the choice of Rails 3, Merb, Sinatra. We ruled out Merb because the direction of the core developers were going towards Rails3 - that doesn't mean the project ceases to exist, but we didn't see a critical mass of both developers and community staying with it and we didn't want to use a "out of mainstream" framework. We use the Barnes & Noble test - how many (or any) books for the software are on the shelf ? Maybe that doesn't matter for you but for a commercial app, you should worry about where the support or knowledge will be in 3 yrs (if not longer). Although Rails3 has the big following, we knew it would be a long while before the whole merge thing would sort out and it would put us back in the Rails camp where we were looking for something simpler. That left Sinatra - the framework doesnt' have a huge community like Rails but it is so lightweight, that it's really all about Ruby and Ruby does have that big following. So the only question was - was it fast enough, stable enough, easy enough, and "professional" enough to use vs Rails - the answer is yes and we are quite happy. I'm sure other opinions will vary - this is just ours. Hope it helps you make a decision. On 11/22/2009 11:28 PM, Julian Leviston wrote: > Geez dude that's a bit biased! ;-) > > Julian. > > On 23/11/2009, at 5:24 PM, casret wrote: > > >> You are really only going to get biased answers on this list. We >> have done all our new projects in Merb and we are happy. >> >> > -- > > 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=. > > > > -- 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=.
