Merb devel - Mar 2008 - Vancouver.rb Q&A with Brock Whitten on Rails, Getting Off Rails (Merb), PmpknPi (Blog in Merb) and More (Part I)

Hello,

  I''ve published a Q&A in the Vancouver.rb series with Brock
Whitten.

  Questions include:

   * How did you get started with Ruby on Rails? What makes Ruby on
Rails a great choice for developing web applications/sites?
   * Can you tell us some challenges you''ve faced developing using
Ruby on Rails?
   * Off the Rails - Can you tell us a little bit about Merb? How did
you get started? Any insight on how Merb compares with Rails and how
it''s better or worse?
   *  What''s PmpknPi? or Tell us more about PmpknPi? What are your
future plans?

    Here''s a quote:

   Rails is awesome. I try my very best not to say things like Merb is
"better" than Rails but it is. Let''s keep in mind that part
of the
reason it''s great is because it is a lot like Rails and Merb was able
to learn from the mistakes Rails learned the hard way. The most
obvious advantage that Merb has is for writing APIs. If you were to
build an API with Rails you are loading this entire (kitchen sink)
framework for something very simple. Think alone of all those view
helpers you won''t be using yet they are being loaded for every
instance of Mongrel. This is like driving a motor home to the
cornerstone to buy milk. Merb on the other hand is broken into chunks
(merb-core, merb-more, plugins) so you only load what you need. This
makes Merb multiple times faster than Rails.

     More @ http://vanrb.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/brockwhitten/

     Cheers.

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Gerald Bauer - Internet Professional - http://geraldbauer.wordpress.com