An introduction to Merb given at the Atlanta Ruby User Group, Oct 8, 2008.

1. MERB

2. HISTORY

3. Mongrel + ERB

4. Ezra Zygmuntowicz
EngineYard

5. progress towards
VERSION 1.0
coming Oct 10th

6. MANY CONTRIBUTORS
CORE CONTRIBUTORS
Yehuda Katz, Michael Klishin,
Carl Lerche, Fabien Franzel,
Michael Ivey, Matt Aimonetti...
AND MANY OTHERS including me :)

7. MERB IS

8. WEB FRAMEWORK

9. LIKE RAILS

10. ONLY AWESOME

12. MVC

14. (looks kinda
like rails to me)

15. awesome!!1!

16. ORM-agnostic

17. Test Framework
Agnosticism

18. Plugin Architecture

19. FAST
LIGHTWEIGHT
POWERFUL

20. RACK

21. CONFIGURATION
& CONVENTION

22. DIFFERENCES

23. MVC
A Closer Look

24. Models

25. DataMapper
Sequel
ActiveRecord

26. Views

28. Very similar to Rails

29. CONFIGURABLE
with plugins
like merb-haml

31. Controllers

32. RENDER
(or display et al)
is required

34. PLUGINS

35. RubyGems
CORE merb_*
MORE merb-*

36. merb-oauth
merb-openid
merb-auth
merb_jquery

37. RACK

39. CONFIG

41. A MERB APP

46. PROS/CONS

47. VERY FAST

48. LIGHTWEIGHT

49. POWERFUL

50. FRESH

51. RUBY

52. MORE EFFORT

53. NOT RAILS

54. MISSING PLUGINS
(well, for now)

55. DEPLOYMENT

56. weee

57. HARDEST PART IS
setting up config/deploy.rb

59. RUN IT

60. $ merb -d -p 4000 -c 3 -a thin -l info
-L log/production.log -e production

61. -d daemonize
-p N port N
-c N N cluster processes
-a S S adapter (thin, mongrel, etc)
-l S log at level S and above
-L S log to S file
-e S run in S environment

62. APPS

63. Panda
Defensio
Scout
SproutCore
et al

64. RESOURCES

65. http://merbivore.com/
http://merbist.com/
http://merbunity.com/
http://merb.4ninjas.org/
IRC: #merb
http://merb.lighthouseapp.com/

66. SUMMARY

67. HAHA LOL
Merb Rails