I heart Merb
Yes every new framework sets my heart a flutter, but this time it’s for real.
Developing Flex/Flash on top of Rails? What if you could get ActiveRecord and RESTful routing at almost eight times the speed with 75% less RAM? How about all that and real concurrency, including true multiple file upload? All of the above without the Rails attitude? You need to get you some Merb.
Models look the same:
end
Controllers look the same:
@photo_rolls = PhotoRoll.find(:all)
render :js => @photo_rolls.to_json
end
end
Then consume away in Flex…
public : void
{
var svc:JSONRESTService = new JSONRESTService();
svc.url = “/photo_rolls“
svc.sendRESTfully( “index“, null, onResult, onFault );
}
That’s a custom JSON REST Service which will be showing up in a future tutorial.
or use HAML as a built in templating engine for all your HTML needs.
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Very insightful. I was initially turned off by Merb because of the absence of all of the view helpers, but if your view is Flex, who cares? I’ll definitely be taking a look at Merb.
Comment by Meekish — June 28, 2007 @ 9:29 am
I rewrote my blog in Merb and I love the experience. If you code your Javascript unobtrusively with Prototype.js and LowPro, you won’t miss Rails’ Javascript Helpers. We’ve got a simple but functional set of form helpers into Merb.
You can still do respond_to and send Javascript back in response to Ajax calls.
And it’s super fast, both in development and production mode.
Comment by topfunky — June 28, 2007 @ 11:59 am