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Thanks Andy,<br>
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Actually, I think these simpler frameworks (like Merb and Sinatra) have
a real strong attraction. That is the lack of 'opinion-ation'. Rails
is opinionated and I have been punished a few times because I needed to
something different from what rails opinions demanded. It seems that
Sinatra has few opinions about how things need to be done. That can be
a good thing at times.<br>
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Blessings,<br>
Nate<br>
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Andy Maleh wrote:
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type="cite">Yeah, Sinatra is kinda like Rails 1.0, only simpler.
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<div>A similar framework is RubyWaves, a Resource-Oriented Web
framework that offers a cleaner and more modular routing architecture
than Rails. At its simplest, it works just like Sinatra. Yet, it can be
augmented with the MVC pattern and work more like Rails/Merb if need
be. Also, supports RACK middleware just like Sinatra/Rails/Merb. <br>
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<div>Andy<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Drew Olson
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<div>Sinatra is awesome for small, lightweight, web services as
well. Very much worth looking into.</div>
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<div>On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Soeder wrote:</div>
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Sinatra is a beautiful piece of work and it is extremely light weight.
I use it for <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://soederpop.com"
target="_blank">soederpop.com</a> to serve a few small ruby apps which
I deploy through rack and passenger. I don't know that I'd use it for
a complete application just yet, but for very simple scripts it is a
godsend. <br>
<br>
js<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Nate
Kirby <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:natebkirby@yahoo.com" target="_blank">natebkirby@yahoo.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jonathan,<br>
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Not horribly out of date...That would be more like "Hey guys there is a
new framework at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rubyonrails.org/" target="_blank">http://rubyonrails.org/</a>
". :)<br>
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However, this does bring a question to my mind. Has anyone used or
thought about using <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sinatra.github.com/" target="_blank">Sinatra</a> ? It
looks very lightweight - looks even lighter than Merb was before rails
started swallowing :).<br>
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Blessings,<br>
Nate<br>
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Jonathan Tonkin wrote:
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Hi, All -- <br>
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I hope I'm not to horribly out of date on this, I've just been
forwarded an article that states that Rails 3.0 will merge with Merb.
This is to happen some time around May. <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Subject: Re: [Chirb] Rails vs Merb<br>
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<pre>There's one thing I'd add to this. I've been working on a merb app
and, while the framework is still fairly young and there is a bit
of
churn (not API churn, but they've done 4 releases in a month), the
folks in the #merb channel on freenode are very, very helpful.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:23 PM, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ninja@hanoian.com" target="_blank"><ninja@hanoian.com></a> wrote:
> Things that distinguish Merb and Rails are:
> - Merb is thread-safe, multi-thread, Rails is single-thread, so Merb takes
> much less computing resources such as CPU and memory.
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> - Code of Merb is more rubyist than Rails code, and easier to understand.
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> - There are less libraries and plugins for Merb now, compared to Rails.
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> - Merb community is currently smaller than Rails community.
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> - Merb is smaller than Rails in term of amount dependent frameworks.
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> Other than that, I think that they are pretty much similar.
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> Linh.
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