As they say: fail early, fail often. Well, I’ve been failing to blog recently, but as always I have some good excuses ;) Yehuda has been blogging a lot about the work done on the merge. I have been busy working on probably the awesomest CouchDB Ruby DSL/ORM. I have been working with the Rails Activi...

Lately, I have been really busy with my business, an upcoming training and some non rails-merb related experimentations. (I’m learning objective-c and playing with macruby) However, here are some of the latest news: Merb 1.0.8 should be released soon with some bug fixes and some improvements The Mer...

Meet today’s merbist: Hampton Catlin I’m personally looking forward to seeing Hampton’s work migrated to Rails 3 in a few months.  Matt Aimonetti: Hi Hampton, could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living. **Hampton Catlin: **I’m Hampton Catlin. I’m “The Haml Guy” as I’m a...

Today is Monday. I usually don’t like Mondays. Being Monday goes with waking up early, going back to work, and lots of deadlines. However, today is a special Monday. It’s the first Monday of the year and I have a special announcement! During the Rails/Merb merge announcement, it was mentioned that I...

Foy Savas, author or the “merb way” wrote a very well written post on “Rails monoculture” Pat Eyler, wrote an article asking if Rails and Merb would be better together. Ben Aldred, tell people to stop worrying and start loving Rails 3. fotonauts.com a Rails and Merb Photo website developed by an ex-...

December 23, 2008, was an important day for the Ruby community. People who used to argue and not get along, have decided to sit down, talk and evaluate their differences. The end result is a strong collaboration of two teams who share the exact same goal. Overall, the news was very well received, ju...

This is huge! While people still try to find some drama an in hypothetical war between rails and merb. The Rails team and the Merb team announced working together on a joined version of the 2 frameworks. This is so exciting, nobody believed it could ever happen (I personally, had my serious doubt). ...

This is huge! While people still try to find some drama in a hypothetical war between Rails and merb … The Rails team and the Merb team announced today that they will work together on a joined version of the 2 frameworks. This is so exciting! Nobody believed it could ever happen (I personally, serio...

Today I’m interviewing Jason Seifer known for the funny envyads and the weekly RailsEnvy podcast. Matt Aimonetti: Hi Jason, could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living? Jason Seifer: My name is Jason Seifer and I do mostly web development for a living along with podcasti...

Today, Andy Delcambre is our featured merbist. Matt Aimonetti: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living. Andy Delcambre: My name is Andy Delcambre and I work for Engine Yard (https://engineyard.com) as a Software Engineer. I work primarily on internal and customer fac...

](https://loriholden.com/) Today, I’m interviewing Lori Holden from YellowPages.com/AT&T Interactive. I met Lori on IRC a bit before MerbCamp 2008 where she gave a very interesting talk on Sequel. Matt Aimonetti Hi Lori, could you please introduce yourself and the company you work for? Lori Holden: ...

Today, I’m starting a new series called meet the the merbists. My goal is to feature various people from our community and ask them a few questions about Ruby, Merb and their projects. Let’s get started with Derek Neighbors from Integrum. Matt Aimonetti: Hi Derek, could you please introduce yourself...

I hear a lot of people asking for better Merb documentation as they are learning Merb. I remember struggling with the very same problem when I started using Rails a few years ago. The good news is that the core team is working hard on improving the state of documentation. You have the Merb Book on w...

3 days ago, I announced the Merb Open Source Book project. I expected that few people would be interested as we heard complaints about the lack of documentation. What I did not expect, was more than 60 emails and pull requests in 2 days, people committing pages of content, fixes and offering their s...

Here is a graph representing the growth of of web searches related to the programming category. This is not a comparison of the amount of searches made. We can see a huge peak around the time Merb 1.0 got released. More and more people are looking for information about what’s already being called th...

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“240” caption=“Love is in the air”][/caption] Yes, it is true and no, I am not being passive aggressive or cynical. As you might have heard there has been some tension between the Rails team and the Merb team in the last few weeks. Sometimes caused by us, some...

Wow, It’s been two weeks since my last post. I’m really sorry about that but at the same time, I really enjoyed Qcon and Thanksgiving which did not give me much time to work on a blog post. [caption id=“attachment_291” align=“alignleft” width=“200” caption=“Mr Bean vs X-mas turkey”][/caption] Thanks...

I’ll try to keep the community posted on the latest merb news. Feel free to email me if you want me to feature your app, plugin, tool or blog post. Quality time with Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ) aka Matz, Ruby author Hack time with Aaron Paterson (Nokogiri) and Bryan Helmkamp (Webra...

 As you must know by now, last week,Merb 1.0 got released. Because we wanted to assure the release was fine, we asked Engine Yard, Apple and YellowPages.com to help us by hiring the NSA to monitor Merb users. After all, we need to know what people complain about so we can fix it ASAP. Turns out all...

Japanese translation On November 7, Yehuda Katz gave a talk at RubyConf and made 3 major announcements: Engine Yard to offer Merb support m|a agile to offer professional training Merb 1.0 released! The first announcement is pretty substantial. Engine Yard has been financially supporting Merb by lett...

As you might have noticed, we’ve been pushing a lot of Release Candidates out the door. The reason is that we want to make sure 1.0 is really ready for showtime! We are also getting a lot of bug reports that help us focusing on the main issues. Today RC5 was pushed to a RubyForge mirror close to you...

Yesterday, Yehuda Katz annouced Merb 1.0 RC3 released and today we re released the same version with a hotfix (some dependencies got broken). Here is a quick sum up: improved the testing framework with full webrat integration. merb-action-args works with ParseTree 2.x and 3.x. improved merb-auth dep...

Mislav & Pjhyett’s will_paginate plugin has been a reference in the Rails world for a little while now. The need for Pagination is arguable, but that’s not the point of this post. There are few existing pagination solutions for Merb, but people moving from Rails and porting a Rails app will be happy...

As I’m writing this post, Merb 1.0 RC2 (v0.9.10) is being propagated through all the RubyForge mirrors. $ sudo gem install merb will install/update Merb Stack. Merb stack is a meta-gem/package installing all the gems you need to get started (including merb-core, merb-more, datamapper and sqlite3 dri...

1.0RC1 was released less than a week ago and we are already planning to release RC2 next week or so. Thanks to all the contributors who reported RC1 bugs and submitted patches. RC2 should iron out most of the small bugs and annoyances encountered. [caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“180” captio...

I’ve been following what people say on twitter about Merb. I simply used twitter search engine. Because I only have a private twitter account I can’t reply to everyone. freels: I keep expecting merb to have a view helper for random things… @freels, feel free to let us know about the view helpers you...

Few hours ago we finally pushed Merb 1.0 RC1 to rubyforge. RC stands for Release Candidate. And we will need your help to make a rock solid 1.0 final. For the occasion, we switched to our new wiki. Installing Merb stack is now dead easy: $ sudo gem install merb Here is a tutorial to get you started ...

Tonight, the core team members present during MerbCamp got together at my place to prepare and release 1.0 RC1. The problem is that we spent more time joking, laughing and arguing about the new git system that we didn’t feel right about pushing a release at 4am :( The git -core and -more repos got m...

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“240” caption=“MerbCamp registration by Andy Delcambre”][/caption] Day 1 went very fast. The day started with a Keynote from Ezra Zygmuntowicz, author of Merb. Ezra covered the past and present of Merb and introduced Nanite: self assembling cluster of ruby pro...

A real quick post to let people know that MerbCamp just started. If you couldn’t make it to San Diego, you can follow live. (For FREE) [caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“160” caption=“Ezra during his Keynote”][/caption] Merb 1.0 RC should be released tomorrow with a new option to get started w...