Merb Screencasts

Though there’s nothing like Ryan Bates’s excellent RailsCasts, there’s a few Merb screencasts to be found:

Merb, Datamapper and merbful_authentication from Jonathan Conway.

Introducing merb-slices from Fabien Franzen.

Merborials from Shay Arnett (on hold as of 02/28/2008, maybe soon?).

As of 5/17/08, there’s nothing yet at merbcast.com.

RSpec Stories in Merb

A blog post from April 23rd, 2008, titled
Integration testing Merb with Webrat,
explains how to set up RSpec Stories in Merb.

Hopefully it gets easier in time.

Merb Example Apps

I’ve looked at a number of open source Rails apps that can be used as a starting point for a project (see the post Survey of Rails Example Applications).

Since I’m considering starting a project using Merb instead of Rails, I wanted to review a collection of open source Merb apps. I didn’t have to look any further than the list of Open Source Merb Apps on the Merb wiki. The author even said, “Sometimes staring at code can be a good learning technique in addition to tutorials and documentation.”

Interesting Sites Using Merb

I’ve been keeping an eye open for interesting sites using Merb.

Here’s the first one worth noting:

HitGeist.com, developed by Viktors Rotanovs. It displays the fastest-growing web sites worldwide, based on traffic data from Alexa.

Getting Started with Merb 0.9.0

Right on time, a blog entry by Chris Kaukis from Atlantic Dominion Solutions describes how to install and get started with Merb.

There also is a recent Merb getting started tutorial by Justin Reagor from Kinetic Web Solutions.

Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources

The Ruby Inside blog has a recent entry (February 5th, 2008) that lists 21 Merb Links, Tutorials and Other Resources.

The merbcast.com site has a longer (and unannotated) list of merb links.

UPDATE: I like the collaborative book-in-progress Life On The Edge With Merb, DataMapper & RSpec. And ctran’s tutorials, Practical Web Development with Merb.

Merb and Rails Side-by-Side

After developing Rails apps for the previous year and half, I’m looking at Merb for my next project.

I’d like to be able to compare identical Merb and Rails apps side-by-side. Has anyone developed the same app in both Rails and Merb?