Merb is Rails

http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/12/23/merb-is-rails

by qhoxie • 18 years ago

33 12 18 years ago

What's your feeling about this, qhoxie? I remember from your earlier posts that you recommended merb over rails. Are you confident this merge is going to be the best of both worlds? I don't know enough to have an opinion.

qhoxie4• 18 years ago

The information as stated makes me a bit wary, but I have a lot of respect for and trust in the Merb team with Yehuda and Ezra in particular. In speaking with them in #merb, they seemed very excited about this, so I cannot help but be optimistic.

That said, the wording of things currently is unsettling. This happened because Merb is considered technically better, more sophisticated, and Rails has the backing and the momentum. They merge so that both have both. I have some qualms with the fact that Merb seems to be taking a back-seat in titles like Merb is being merged into Rails.

I worry that Merb will feel like Rails when it really should be the opposite. This has been mentioned in #merb and, again, Yehuda assures us we will be happy. I believe that, even though it's all a bit hard to digest.

villageidiot2• 18 years ago

Maybe this is an opportunity for someone to protect what Merb has achieved by branching off the project at its current stage and insisting on its distinct identity from Rails. Don't know if there would be any value in this but at least it might avoid the dilution of features that seems possible once it gets merged with Rails.

teej• 18 years ago

The feeling I've gotten, which is certainly not original, is that the Rails people are much happier about this than the Merb people.

mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

I have some qualms with the fact that Merb seems to be taking a back-seat in titles like "Merb is being merged into Rails".

But that's the correct phrasing no matter what the underlying technical reality is. Rails is the established brand! People know what Rails is! Nobody but blog-reading Ruby programmers has any idea what Merb is!

Even if the plan was to throw all existing Rails code in the trash and have the Rails core team switch to Merb, they would still call the result "Rails". Throwing away the Rails brand would be insane, and diluting it by calling it "Rails/Merb" or "Mails" or something would likewise be insane.

fiaz• 18 years ago

Sounds like something worthy of a completely new name. That would go for both projects.

kajecounterhack• 18 years ago

marl. alternating letters from merb and rails

tower10• 18 years ago

Is less choice a good thing?

davidw• 18 years ago

Often, yes:

http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/19/the-paradox-of-cho...

http://journal.dedasys.com/2006/02/18/maximizers-satisficers...

Merb is Rails

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