{"id":71,"date":"2010-01-19T12:53:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T09:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-01-19T17:50:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T14:50:45","slug":"rails-and-merb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/rails-and-merb\/","title":{"rendered":"Rails and Merb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 3 weeks to understand Ruby way in web development. The main goal was to learn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyonrails.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rails<\/a>, so I bought Russian translation of he book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rails-Way-Obie-Fernandez\/dp\/0321445619\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rails Way<\/a> . What a pity, the book based on Rails 1.x, but current version of Rails was 2.3.5, therefore I decided to throw out these useless papers pack.<\/p>\n<p>The Rails 2.x itself looks like complex, but too monolithic. The is no easy way to do something out of Rails way. You cannot use other templating system, other ORM.<\/p>\n<p>The much pretty framework is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merbivore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merb<\/a>. Really modular system. Slices &#8211; good things. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineyard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engine Yard<\/a> (who employed <a href=\"http:\/\/yehudakatz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yehuda Katz<\/a>, the lead developer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merbivore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merb<\/a>) decided to finish supporting Merb &#8211; in favor of Rails. I understand their position, because the Rails community much more than Merb community. Therefore the work on new Rails version will be better for Engine Yard business.<\/p>\n<p>What we get? Merb will be dead. Rails 3 will include some parts of Merb (see the Katz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/yehudakatz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>). I won&#8217;t spend my time on Ruby until Katz publish Rails 3. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 3 weeks to understand Ruby way in web development. The main goal was to learn Rails, so I bought Russian translation of he book The Rails Way . What a pity, the book based on Rails 1.x, but current version of Rails was 2.3.5, therefore I decided to throw out these useless papers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,11,10],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-merb","tag-rails","tag-ruby"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nemtsev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}