Brainspl.at: Merb 0.4.2 released.

"Merb 0.4.2 released." by Garth

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:35:37 +0000

How ready is merb for production? I have a Rails app which involves a fair amount of uploading to the server and I'm considering porting to merb - I'm not keen the rails bloat, plus the threading issue of uploads etc. Is there a proposed naming convention for merb plugins? For instance, acts_as_taggable for activerecord/rails. What would you suggest for the merb equivalent?

"Merb 0.4.2 released." by Matthijs Langenberg

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:54:35 +0000

Brian, the time it will take to port a plugin totally depends on the type of plugin, I don't think you can put a number on it. Since the internals of merb quite differ with Rails (except for ActiveRecord) you will need to re-implement the plugin's functionality again instead of simply adapting the code for a new API. But since the specifications are already there, and the merb code is a beauty, porting some rails plugin should be a walk in the park.

"Merb 0.4.2 released." by Brian

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:54:28 +0000

I keep meaning to check out merb. The one question I have is how hard would it be to port plugins from rails to merb? Granted it really depends on the plugin and whether you still use active record, but as a general rule, how hard is it? Also could you still use activesupport in merb or would it not mess with the implementation of merb?

Merb 0.4.2 released.

ezmobius — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:53:00 +0000

Merb 0.4.2 is released as a gem. This release polishes up a number of rough spots and vastly improves performance in some areas. Should be a simple upgrade for anyone on 0.4.0 or later.

Here is the changelog:

== 0.4.2 “Surf’s up.” 2007-12-14

Super-huge speed boost for rendering Erubis templates with partials
Windows-specific fixes to Merb’s Rakefile
Blocking write is called when in development, test, Windows and jRuby environments and platforms.
merb_helpers: form field labels are now explicit, huge documentation update, added select, fieldset, more helpers
Fixed merb.show_routes within merb -i
Fixed image_tag, css_include_tag, and js_include_tag to work with path_prefix
Adds spec helper methods with_route and dispatch_to
fix rakefile cfor cygwin
add count with collection to partial()
Form control mixin is deprecated Use merb_helpers plugin.
add redirect matcher to rspec test helpers
allow r.resource(:foo, :myparam => 42) resource routes pass on params to underlying match() call
spit out error and help message if you call merb with no args
get rid of dependency on mongrel for escape and unescape
make sure not to use write_nonblock when logging to STDOUT
Fixed image_tag, css_include_tag, and js_include_tag to work with path_prefix
fix set_status to actually work, add docs,
config/merb.yml is now correctly loaded from Rake and test environment – using Merb::Server.load_config
added config option to disable loading of the JSON gem – still enabled by default
don’t raise if names local on a partial is nil
Use svn export instead of checkout upon merb:freeze_from_svn
Extracted url and other general methods out of ControllerMixin into GeneralControllerMixin
fix caching of @_buffer in render, form_for
Seperates spec helpers into the Merb::Test namespace to prevent spec methods leaking into specs
Changes the spec url helper method to the same used in the controller
Made Request#parse_multipart return an empty hash instead of nil if the request is not multipart
Changes throw_content so that it can be called without a block
Added :namespace option to routes.