rowtheboat - George Palmer

I presented on MERB last weekend at Barcamp London 4 I’ve been using the technology the last two months at Bablo so it was good to share my experience with other users. With it being quite a bleeding edge technology there was just a small gang of us there but there was plenty of good discussion. The talk I gave had a purposely provocative title but ended with a great quote by Ezra

more choices make the Ruby ecosystem a better place. So let’s just stop with the Rails VS Merb stuff. How about people choose what framework they want to use based on the frameworks merits and features rather then religious arguments about how my framework can beat up your framework.

I was then flicking through some slides from the recent RubyConf and was mightily impressed by a slide from the end of the MERB talk:

It’s consider a bug if:
* It’s not documented
* MERB gets slower
* There’s a public API change without prior deprecation in a timely manner

It seems the guys at EngineYard have a great attitude, not to mention a really well thought out framework. I’m looking forward to using it fulltime.