Free as in Time

Back on December 31st Pat Eyler of Linux Journal published some predictions for the Ruby world in 2008.

Among them was that Merb will “come forward as a better Rails”. He believes that “it won’t overtake Rails in terms of deployments or mindshare in 2008, but it will get big enough to be taken seriously.”

I’m not familiar with Merb, yet, but a little poking around on the Merb site suggests he might be right. (That and a great rant against much of the Rails community from Zed Shaw.)

I’ve been side-tracked by Sinatra as my Rails-alternative, but Merb just made it on to my list of things to look further into this year.

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