Some of you still seem to have issues with the merge so I decided to address the most common concerns:
http://merbist.com/2008/12/25/merb-rails-merge-or-why-should-merbists-be-happy/ Let me know if you have any questions. - Matt On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Yehuda Katz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Rue the Ghetto <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> While I do feel like this could be a good thing, I also feel like the rug >> has been pulled out from under me. >> As the lead developer for a small Ruby web shop, I was able to push Merb >> into a couple interesting commercial projects. We have projects dating back >> to version 0.4.X. In the Spring, I built a green PR site for >> Whirlpool/Method that calculated the water quantity and usage of a user's >> household. It was so calculation and database heavy that it really shined >> under Merb. Sadly the project died after it was built for lack of marketing >> funding. >> >> Afterwards, we built greenwala.com. That is when the decision to use Merb >> turned into an investment in the framework. We had an excellent CMS built in >> Rails that met all our client's needs, but decided to rebuild in Merb >> because our company believed in Merb's speed, modularity and philosophy. We >> eschewed the numerous rails plugins that would have made our life so much >> easier, because we wanted to build a new set of tools for Merb. We struggled >> with openid, pagination, and facebook, using a much smaller pool of >> competent developers. We had plans to extract our CMS and possibly the >> social network into a slice. Just recently I started extracting the generic >> parts of facebooker into a gem to open source. That way there could be an >> adjunct rails/merb/mack/whatever gem that worked with framework specific >> items. After the announcement, doing that kind of work seems foolish. >> >> Although I haven't made significant contributions to datamapper or Merb, I >> have been an ardent Merb user and an evangelist for this new little >> framework that could. Perhaps I flatter myself to think that Merb owes >> people like me, early adopters, some notice or input before this kind of >> change. >> >> I have a few questions for the new core team that will help me figure out >> where to invest my coding and open source time: >> >> 1) What is the process going to be like for adapting existing Merb plugins >> to the hybrid framework? >> > > The current plans involve porting plugins like merb-helpers to Rails3, and > providing transitional releases (and probably a transitional plugin for > Rails3) to aid in the transition. How does that sound? > > >> 2) Can slices be used in Rails 3? And if so wow will slices have to be >> changed to fit in? >> 3) Will there be a performance hit for using legacy rails plugins? >> >> Thanks for listening ... really! >> >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:49 AM, mikhailov >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> What you think about new logo? >>> http://www.railsgeek.com/2008/12/23/rails-3-rails-and-merb-merge >>> >>> On Dec 24, 4:21 pm, Samo Korosec <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Hey, at least DHH ends his "adressing the concerned 4%" post at >>> > >>> > http://www.loudthinking.com/posts/36-work-on-what-you-use-and-share-t. >>> .. >>> > >>> > classy; >>> > >>> > "So kumbaja motherfuckers and merry christmas!" >>> > >>> > First there's an annoucement that feels like a slap in the face to the >>> > merb community and then we get a nice taste of what's coming, yay! >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Yehuda Katz > Developer | Engine Yard > (ph) 718.877.1325 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
