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Hasham

More options Mar 17, 5:20 pm

From: Hasham <hash...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:20:04 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Mar 17 2008 5:20 pm

Subject: Re: Merb? should we ditch rails in favor for merb

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Merb is nearing its release 1.0. It addresses most of performance
issues that rails have. So in next six months i see some adoption of
this framework.

On Mar 17, 5:02 pm, FreshFarhan <fresh.far...@gmail.com> wrote:

> How is merb faring these days. Back when we were evaluating merb it
> wasn't being used much.
> I dont think its being used right now either.. but I really don't see
> a reason not to use it - its quite nice, might actually be better than
> rails :D

> On Mar 17, 11:47 am, Hasham <hash...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Yes! I think so ....

> > Merb is a new super fast, multi threaded, Ruby based MVC Framework
> > based on Mongrel and Embedded Ruby. Developer of merb is Ezra
> > Zygmuntowicz of engine yard fame.The latest release of merb is based
> > on rack which is common interface between various web servers and ruby
> > frameworks. Being multi threaded means it relies on thread per request
> > model so you don't need to run pack of mongrels to get acceptable
> > output. Rails is not multi threaded as dispatch code has uses mutex
> > when serving a request.

> > Merb does not force developers to stick to one thing unlike Rails. The
> > merb allows developers to choose from three different ORM's i.e.
> > Active Record, Data mapper and Sequel.

> > Check out following links and post on what you think:

> >http://www.merbivore.com/http://hasham2.blogspot.com/2008/03/getting-...

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