MERB

HISTORY

Mongrel + ERB

Ezra Zygmuntowicz EngineYard

progress towards VERSION 1.0 coming Oct 10th

MANY CONTRIBUTORS CORE CONTRIBUTORS Yehuda Katz, Michael Klishin, Carl Lerche, Fabien Franzel, Michael Ivey, Matt Aimonetti... AND MANY OTHERS including me :)

MERB IS

WEB FRAMEWORK

LIKE RAILS

ONLY AWESOME

MVC

(looks kinda like rails to me)

awesome!!1!

ORM-agnostic

Test Framework Agnosticism

Plugin Architecture

FAST LIGHTWEIGHT POWERFUL

RACK

CONFIGURATION & CONVENTION

DIFFERENCES

MVC A Closer Look

Models

DataMapper Sequel ActiveRecord

Views

Very similar to Rails

CONFIGURABLE with plugins like merb-haml

Controllers

RENDER (or display et al) is required

PLUGINS

RubyGems CORE merb_* MORE merb-*

merb-oauth merb-openid merb-auth merb_jquery

RACK

CONFIG

A MERB APP

PROS/CONS

VERY FAST

LIGHTWEIGHT

POWERFUL

FRESH

RUBY

MORE EFFORT

NOT RAILS

MISSING PLUGINS (well, for now)

DEPLOYMENT

weee

HARDEST PART IS setting up cong/deploy.rb

RUN IT

$ merb -d -p 4000 -c 3 -a thin -l info -L log/production.log -e production

-d daemonize -p N port N -c N N cluster processes -a S S adapter (thin, mongrel, etc) -l S log at level S and above -L S log to S le -e S run in S environment

APPS

Panda Defensio Scout SproutCore et al

RESOURCES

http://merbivore.com/ http://merbist.com/ http://merbunity.com/ http://merb.4ninjas.org/ IRC: #merb http://merb.lighthouseapp.com/

SUMMARY

HAHA LOL Merb Rails