From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2007-02-09T15:49:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Current State of Merb


On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Daniel N wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been looking around for details on Merb and what it's being  
> used for
> etc but I can't find a great deal.  Most of the information is  
> "Merb is"
> style instead of a howto.
>
> I'm wondering if it's because it's young, or people prefer camping/ 
> rails
> over it.
>
> From the time line it certainly looks like Ezra is working hard on it.
>
> Any insights/opinions would be great
>
> Cheers
> Daniel


Hey Daniel-

	Sorry the docs or tutorials for merb are non existant. Such is life  
when things change fast. I am almost done with a 0.2 release and feel  
like merb will be api stable and usable enough to finally write some  
nice tutorials. I have been playing fast and loose with code and  
features while I develop my ideas for merb so things change fast.


	As to what people are using merb for. There are a number of folks  
using merb to serve high traffick image upload/download type sites.  
Once of them is handing 250K uploads a day for the last month or so  
on one 15Mb merb process! But merb is also being used all on its own  
for full app development. It does take a similar path to rails on a  
number of things, but diverges and uses as little magick as possible.  
Kinda like a magick removal branch of ActionPack with thread safety  
and performance as a primary concern.

	If you want to get involved with writing merb apps then the best  
thing you could do is try to build a little project, ask me for help  
via email or tickets to trac or come to the irc channel #merb on  
irc.freenode.net with questions. Then maybe write up a little blog  
post or tutorial to help others start using merb.

	I'm into merb for the long haul and I plan on it staying highly  
focused light to medium sized core framework that gets out of your  
way and lets you code in more of a plain ruby stryle then some of the  
railsisms that makes some stuff hard to deal with in the rails source.

	A tutorial site will be up soon with a wiki and docs and tutorials.

Thanks-
-- Ezra Zygmuntowicz 
-- Lead Rails Evangelist
-- ez@engineyard.com
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