Thanks for the notes. Unfortunately we have to integrate with other apps in the company, and thus Rails is required because we need to use certain plugins. Ah well, I will just hold my nose and get it done.
..tony.. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM, pr <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
