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• Paul Birch

  All I know currently is that Merb is a slimmed down version or Rails - perhaps with some 'lessons learned' applied.

  All I know currently is that Merb is a slimmed down version or Rails - perhaps with some 'lessons learned' applied.

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  Pratik Naik

  mkdir merb; cp -R rails merb; cd merb; rm -rf activerecord activeresource activesupport; So, the answer is big fat NOOOOO. It offers a lot less ;-)

  mkdir merb;
  cp -R rails merb;
  cd merb;
  rm -rf activerecord activeresource activesupport;

  So, the answer is big fat NOOOOO. It offers a lot less ;-)

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  Joe Connor

  Thread safety. I think that is the killer feature at the moment, but SURELY someone will get round to refactoring actionview and routes in rails and fix that soon? Merb is not a Rails replacement, but more like another string to your bow, something to…  more

  Thread safety. I think that is the killer feature at the moment, but SURELY someone will get round to refactoring actionview and routes in rails and fix that soon? Merb is not a Rails replacement, but more like another string to your bow, something to use when you don't need all of Rails' magic helpers, prefer to roll your own.

  For me the best thing abot Rails isn't ActiveResource or ActionView; its ActiveRecord that makes Rails so damn easy to work with, and Merb has that along with other ORM adaptors. As for template agnostic, well you can get plenty of plugins for Rails (HAML being my current favourite - SASS rocks!) to remove the rather verbose, non-DRY ERB templates. Merb is definitely cool. For now both have a place. Merb's place is achieved by offering LESS than Rails

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• Ben Smith

  I've been hearing good things about Merb; it's fast, ORM and template language agnostic, and the core is as small as possible. My question is what does it offer over and above Rails and is it worth the jump. My own opinion is that it's…  more

  I've been hearing good things about Merb; it's fast, ORM and template language agnostic, and the core is as small as possible. My question is what does it offer over and above Rails and is it worth the jump. My own opinion is that it's too early for production use at the moment, but once it it hits 1.0 then worth re-evaluating.

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  Matthew Rudy Jacobs

  I've not had the time to play yet, but it feels like it'll be perfect for lightweight facebook apps, if only facebooker or rfacebook had a merb plugin. Lower memory footprint => more mongrels on my virtual server => good!

  I've not had the time to play yet,
  but it feels like it'll be perfect for lightweight facebook apps,
  if only facebooker or rfacebook had a merb plugin.

  Lower memory footprint => more mongrels on my virtual server => good!

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