merb
“came for Rails,
stayed for Ruby”

/whois merb
•MVC web framework
•kinda like rails
•ezmobius & wycats
•started as a hack

•http://pastie.org/14416
•3 parts: core, more, plugins
•rack based
•thread safe
•less opinions

•ORM agnostic
•view agnostic
•JS agnostic
•“no code is faster than no
code”

merb-core
•actionpack light
•routing, controllers,
bootloader, rack
•merb-guts

merb-more
•the rest of actionpack, with
a little activesupport
•merb-mailer, merb-haml, merb-
action-args
•often useful, but not
critical

merb-plugins
•sometimes useful
•important enough, maintained
by merb team
•merb_activerecord,
merb_helpers, merb_test_unit