The Merbist
def: A person who is dedicated to the economic or medicinal uses of Merb.
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- Meet the merbists: Hampton Catlin
- Presenting the Rails Activists
- latest Merb and Rails 3.0 news
- Merb/Rails merge, or Why should merbists be happy?
- Rails and Merb core team working together on their next release
- Meet the merbists: Jason Seifer
- meet the merbists: Andy Delcambre
- Meet the merbists: Lori Holden
- Meet the merbists: Derek Neighbors
- become better at Merb
- Merb news (Dec 8 2008)
- Annoucing the Merb open source book
- Merb ♡ Rails
- latest news from Merbland (Nov 30)
- Merb news nov-16-2008
Tuesday January 6th, 2009
Meet the merbists: Hampton Catlin
From The Merbist, 3 days ago,
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Meet today’s merbist: Hampton Catlin
I’m personally looking forward to seeing Hampton’s work migrated to Rails 3 in a few months.
Matt Aimonetti: Hi Hampton, could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living.
Hampton Catlin: I’m Hampton Catlin. I’m “The Haml Guy” as I’m apparently termed all the time when introduced. I’m [...]
Monday January 5th, 2009
Presenting the Rails Activists
From The Merbist, 4 days ago,
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Today is Monday. I usually don’t like Mondays.
Being Monday goes with waking up early, going back to work, and lots of deadlines.
However, today is a special Monday. It’s the first Monday of the year and I have a special announcement!
During the Rails/Merb merge announcement, it was mentioned that I will be joining the soon to [...]
Monday December 29th, 2008
latest Merb and Rails 3.0 news
From The Merbist, 11 days ago,
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Foy Savas, author or the “merb way” wrote a very well written post on “Rails monoculture”
Pat Eyler, wrote an article asking if Rails and Merb would be better together.
Ben Aldred, tell people to stop worrying and start loving Rails 3.
fotonauts.com a Rails and Merb Photo website developed by an ex-apple team, was featured in TechCrunch. [...]
Friday December 26th, 2008
Merb/Rails merge, or Why should merbists be happy?
From The Merbist, 14 days ago,
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December 23, 2008, was an important day for the Ruby community. People who used to argue and not get along, have decided to sit down, talk and evaluate their differences. The end result is a strong collaboration of two teams who share the exact same goal.
Overall, the news was very well received, just look at [...]
Tuesday December 23rd, 2008
Rails and Merb core team working together on their next release
From The Merbist, 17 days ago,
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This is huge!
While people still try to find some drama in a hypothetical war between Rails and merb …
The Rails team and the Merb team announced today that they will work together on a joined version of the 2 frameworks. This is so exciting! Nobody believed it could ever happen (I personally, seriously had my [...]
Saturday December 20th, 2008
Meet the merbists: Jason Seifer
From The Merbist, 20 days ago,
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Today I’m interviewing Jason Seifer known for the funny envyads and the weekly RailsEnvy podcast.
Matt Aimonetti: Hi Jason, could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living?
Jason Seifer: My name is Jason Seifer and I do mostly web development for a living along with podcasting and screencasting.
Matt Aimonetti: How did [...]
Thursday December 18th, 2008
meet the merbists: Andy Delcambre
From The Merbist, 22 days ago,
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Today, Andy Delcambre is our featured merbist.
Matt Aimonetti: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living.
Andy Delcambre: My name is Andy Delcambre and I work for Engine Yard
(http://engineyard.com) as a Software Engineer. I work primarily on
internal and customer facing projects. These projects are almost
exclusively written in Merb. [...]
Wednesday December 17th, 2008
Meet the merbists: Lori Holden
From The Merbist, 23 days ago,
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Today, I’m interviewing Lori Holden from YellowPages.com/AT&T Interactive.
I met Lori on IRC a bit before MerbCamp 2008 where she gave a very interesting talk on Sequel.
Matt Aimonetti Hi Lori, could you please introduce yourself and the company you work for?
Lori Holden: Hi Matt, my name is Lori Holden. I originally became interested in software [...]
Monday December 15th, 2008
Meet the merbists: Derek Neighbors
From The Merbist, 25 days ago,
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Today, I’m starting a new series called meet the the merbists. My goal is to feature various people from our community and ask them a few questions about Ruby, Merb and their projects.
Let’s get started with Derek Neighbors from Integrum.
Matt Aimonetti: Hi Derek, could you please introduce yourself and the company you work for?
Derek Neighbors: [...]
Thursday December 11th, 2008
become better at Merb
From The Merbist, 29 days ago,
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I hear a lot of people asking for better Merb documentation as they are learning Merb. I remember struggling with the very same problem when I started using Rails a few years ago.
The good news is that the core team is working hard on improving the state of documentation.
You have the Merb Book on which [...]
Monday December 8th, 2008
Merb news (Dec 8 2008)
From The Merbist, 1 month ago,
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3 days ago, I announced the Merb Open Source Book project. I expected that few people would be interested as we heard complaints about the lack of documentation.
What I did not expect, was more than 60 emails and pull requests in 2 days, people committing pages of content, fixes and offering their services to translate [...]
Friday December 5th, 2008
Annoucing the Merb open source book
From The Merbist, 1 month ago,
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Here is a graph representing the growth of of web searches related to the programming category. This is not a comparison of the amount of searches made.
We can see a huge peak around the time Merb 1.0 got released. More and more people are looking for information about what’s already being called the “Ruby [...]
Wednesday December 3rd, 2008
Merb ♡ Rails
From The Merbist, 1 month ago,
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Yes it is true and no, I am not being passive aggressive or cynical.
As you might have heard there has been some tension between the Rails team and the Merb team in the last few weeks. Sometimes caused by us, sometimes caused by them. I already addressed this issue in this blog post, so let’s [...]
Sunday November 30th, 2008
latest news from Merbland (Nov 30)
From The Merbist, 1 month ago,
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Wow, It’s been two weeks since my last post. I’m really sorry about that but at the same time, I really enjoyed Qcon and Thanksgiving which did not give me much time to work on a blog post.
Thanksgiving is a big thing in America, and after few years I got used to it and I [...]
Monday November 17th, 2008
Merb news nov-16-2008
From The Merbist, 1 month ago,
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I’ll try to keep the community posted on the latest merb news. Feel free to email me if you want me to feature your app, plugin, tool or blog post.
Quality time with Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ) aka Matz, Ruby author
Hack time with Aaron Paterson (Nokogiri) and Bryan Helmkamp (Webrat)
Merb presentation at ORUG
RailsCamp Australia
Rails podcast
Rails vs Merb [...]