I've love to see this as well. Something like <a href="http://rails-engines.org/">http://rails-engines.org/</a> that's native to merb would be very helpful.<br><br>-ben<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 5, 2008 4:54 AM, Ben <
<a href="mailto:ben@ducktyped.com">ben@ducktyped.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ezra,<br><br>I love merb, especially because it's keeping the things that Rails does
<br>well and improves on things that Rails hasn't done so well.<br><br>One of my biggest pain points with Rails has become multi-app<br>integration. A lot of web sites consist of multiple apps (e.g. a core<br>site, a forum, a blog/cms, etc.). Doing this sort of thing is very ugly
<br>and inefficient with the current Rails structure, and I would love for<br>merb to make multi-app integration and deployments less painful.<br><br>For example, integrating a rails app with beast (another rails app) is<br>
just as cumbersome as integrating a rails app with a random php forum<br>engine. Try to add mephisto to the mix and you're in integrated hell -<br>(css, js, model) duplication and (routing, SCM, environment) hacks galore.
<br><br>I wrote a post about what sucks about multi-app, what it might look<br>like, and some potential pitfalls here:<br><a href="http://ducktyped.com/2008/1/4/the-great-ruby-web-framework-multi-app-challenge" target="_blank">
http://ducktyped.com/2008/1/4/the-great-ruby-web-framework-multi-app-challenge</a><br><br>I also started a discussion on ruby-talk:<br><a href="http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/137539" target="_blank">http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/137539
</a><br><br>I just thought I'd put this out for consideration.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Ben<br>_______________________________________________<br>Merb-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Merb-devel@rubyforge.org">
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