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Meet Merb PDF Draft
"Preview"
Merb is a Rails clone.
So why should you use it?
It’s a great companion to Rails for specific tasks like concurrent file uploads. It can also hold its own for small single-file applications and larger high performance, thread-safe installations.
This 60-page draft PDF presents the philosophy of Merb and shows you how to setup a Merb application, work with controllers, and build models.
Future updates to this PDF are free to those who purchase this draft and will explore more advanced controller features and show how Merb approaches forms, templates, and testing.
A Merb screencast will also be released in the next few months as a separate $9 purchase.
Merb is still somewhat experimental and bugs are being discovered and fixed. However, it is a great experimental framework for the developer who wants to stay on the edge of web application development technology.
"Skills"
This draft PDF assumes you have knowledge of Ruby and general experience with Rails.
Revision 1 (Notes) · Created: Feb 16, 2008 · Length: 60 pages · 1 MB
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