I undertook a similar project to migrate our open source project Mostfit (http://github.com/mostfit/mostfit) to Rails 3. I sent this email to my team after 3 days:
" Mostfit has taken some baby steps towards rails3. Learnings so far: 1. Devise is SHIT. It follows the age old methodology of rails aka my- way-or-highway. Just won't let go of that email property(we do not have a email login). Moreover, I do not have any idea right now how we can make sure painless migration aka without forcing users to change password. 2. Merb is a much better framework *any* day. Merb routing was much easier to understand and use. For instance, even after so much work on rails3, they have stylesheet_include_tag not take symbols. I do not understand why. 3. Rails 3 is damn slow in dev mode. I tried some stupid dev-boost shit. It just caches everything and doesn't reload anything when changed. Removing it almost make it impossible to work with Rails taking upto 20-30 seconds to re-load at times. I hate rails3 so far! I have written a script which will make it easy to keep merging mostfit to mostfit_rails for the time being. My aim is to make a single command migration from mostfit_merb to mostfit_rails. It works like 95% right now. Rest 5% will come soon. There are some code changes I am doing into mostfit to make this easier. " I never completed the rest 5% as it was deemed unnecessary. We are happy to use Merb. Piyush On May 7, 1:52 am, Tony Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > [I am not sure if we are trying to avoid job postings in this group. If so, > please forgive me. But I need someone with Merb experience, and this seemed > like a great place to find someone.] > > We have a medium-size Merb project that we have to port to Rails in order to > integrate with various company-wide services. If you or anybody you know is > interested in some short-term contract work, let me know. The job would take > roughly a month to complete. We need this done soon and done well, and we > will provide good compensation if you fit the bill. > > Just to avoid flames: I love Merb and don't like Rails. But this decision is > out of my control. > > ..tony.. -- 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.
