Brainspl.at: merb-slices

"merb-slices" by Sean Cribbs

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:23:09 +0000

That looks awesome. Much better than what we hacked into Rails for Radiant, and in line with John's rant on the subject.

"merb-slices" by Luis Lavena

Thu, 22 May 2008 23:16:06 +0000

Is excellent know this kind of stuff (the support for it) is part of merb-core and no need us to tweak too much :-D

"merb-slices" by James Adam

Thu, 22 May 2008 11:00:43 +0000

Great to see framework support for this kind of development style :)

"merb-slices" by Eivind Uggedal

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:44:46 +0000

Reminds me of the various applications that are available for Django.

"merb-slices" by Joao

Wed, 21 May 2008 23:20:47 +0000

Sounds good. Even though I have my own framework which shares some similar features, merb is becoming more appealing every day, and it has many more hands to take care of it and a community for one thing. :-) I just have to take some time to explore merb in the soon future to see if I can kill my own framework sooner and then use merb forever and ever.

merb-slices

ezmobius — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:13:00 +0000

There is a great tutorial/screencast about a new merb feature that I really like a lot called merb-slices. This is now part of merb-more, contributed by a long time friend of mine, Fabien Franzen(worked on ez-where with me)

merb-slices are “Little slices of MVC cake”. These are self contained merb apps with models, controlers, views and assets that you can distribute as rubygems. You can mount a merb-slice at a specific point in your router definition and you can override any part of the slice up in your main app. So in a way these are similar to what Rails-Engines promise, except merb-slices are built into the framework and will not break when merb itself is updated.

Check out the tutorial/screencast for a peek at how merb-slices work.