Comments on: Merb news nov-16-2008

By: The Merbist » Blog Archive » latest news from Merbland (Nov 30)

The Merbist » Blog Archive » latest news from Merbland (Nov 30) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:23:17 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:03:38 +0000

Hi Matt,
Just letting you know that I’m currently writing the third Merb book by Apress.

By: nabster

nabster — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:59:22 +0000

Thank you very much Matt.

By: Matt Aimonetti

Matt Aimonetti — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:26:03 +0000

@liam & @nabster as you probably know, Matz is real gentleman. He did not say anything bad about REE, he just mentioned that even though REE was making some web frameworks use less memory, it was also %20 to %40 slower for some other Ruby apps/scripts. He agreed that something needs to be done, but he was not willing to pay the price of the current (REE) implementation. That's why someone in Japan (Narihiro Nakamu) is working on achieving the same goal while preserving Ruby's speed. For more information about this topic, read this thread

By: nabster

nabster — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:26:05 +0000

Yeah, tell us more what Matz’s opinion is about the Enterprise Edition. I would like to read it.

By: Liam Morley

Liam Morley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:50:50 +0000

I’m curious, what’s Matz’s opinion on Ruby Enterprise Edition?

By: Samo

Samo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:46:36 +0000

The whole Merb vs Rails drama is funny â€“ I don’t know why DHH seems to feel like he needs to defend Rails, especially since a few of the “Myths” are a direct reaction to the claims the merb people make.

Seems like he’s either forgotten that Rails was the new kid on the block just a few years ago or he’s just too defensive about it and it’s the same motivation he had when attacking/defending Java et al.

Besides, it’s not like Rails needs defending. Their userbase is growing, they’re in a strong position and the framework is still the right choice for a whole lot of people.