Actually I think in the end, you're better off starting with Merb because it gives you ALL of the functionality Rails does, and quite a bit of the magic-ness, for a teensy bit more startup time at the beginning. i mean, that's what the merb core devs have been trying for all along, right? Best of both worlds... and I think it goes to show that it's possible.
It seems to me that there's ALWAYS a certain amount of "hassle" in a project. Either the hassle is taken by the programmers, or its users. Merb tries to take as much as possible by the programmers (ie framework), not its (framework) users - ie end-leve-app-programmers. This is much like Apple's products. They tend towards starting with a brilliant core set of technologies, and adding a set of layers on top of them to help ALL users. It'd be brilliant if we could get Merb shipped and supported by MacOS/X in much the same way as Rails is now (not to mention other juicy bits from EY). Julian. On 03/11/2008, at 12:00 AM, Per Melin wrote: > > 2008/11/1 Mark Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I rewrote my old RubyPlanet.net site using Merb as the simple example >> for the article: >> >> http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/39735 > > Quote from the article: > "I currently see Merb to be most suited for either small > compute-intensive web applications or for creating web services from > Ruby applications." > > I read that a lot. > > And while that certainly is one area where Merb is better suited than > Rails, there are others where it is equally superior. Almost any > complex service/site/application falls outsite Rails' opinionated > sweet spot and are, in my opinion, better off with Merb. As soon as > you can't hide behind ORM-generated models connected to a single > database, a handful of acts_as plugins, HTML-helpers and RJS anymore > Rails starts to fight you instead of getting out of your way. Or at > least it did pre-2.0 when I last used it. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
