[Chirb] Sinatra WAS => Re: Rails vs Merb

[Drew Olson]

+ 1

Sinatra is awesome for small, lightweight, web services as well. Very  
much worth looking into.

- Drew

On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Jonathan Soeder wrote:

> Nate,
>
> Sinatra is a beautiful piece of work and it is extremely light  
> weight.  I use it for soederpop.com to serve a few small ruby apps  
> which I deploy through rack and passenger.  I don't know that I'd  
> use it for a complete application just yet, but for very simple  
> scripts it is a godsend.
>
> js
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Nate Kirby <natebkirby at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Not horribly out of date...That would be more like "Hey guys there  
> is a new framework at http://rubyonrails.org/ ".  :)
>
> However, this does bring a question to my mind.  Has anyone used or  
> thought about using Sinatra ?  It looks very lightweight - looks  
> even lighter than Merb was before rails started swallowing :).
>
> Blessings,
> Nate
>
> Jonathan Tonkin wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi, All --
>>
>> I hope I'm not to horribly out of date on this, I've just been  
>> forwarded an article that states that Rails 3.0 will merge with  
>> Merb.  This is to happen some time around May.
>>
>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/01/12/02NF-ruby-on-rails-merb_1.html
>>
>> -- Jon 
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Tue, 12/16/08, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Chirb] Rails vs Merb
>> To: "Chirb discussion list" <chicagogroup-members-list at rubyforge.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 9:58 PM
>>
>> There's one thing I'd add to this. I've been working on a merb app
>> and, while the framework is still fairly young and there is a bit
>>  of
>> churn (not API churn, but they've done 4 releases in a month), the
>> folks in the #merb channel on freenode are very, very helpful.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:23 PM,  <ninja at hanoian.com> wrote:
>> > Things that distinguish Merb and Rails are:
>> > - Merb is thread-safe, multi-thread, Rails is single-thread, so  
>> Merb takes
>> > much less computing resources such as CPU and memory.
>> >
>> > - Code of Merb is more rubyist than Rails code, and easier to  
>> understand.
>> >
>> > - There are less libraries and plugins for Merb now, compared to  
>> Rails.
>> >
>> > - Merb community is currently smaller than Rails community.
>> >
>> > - Merb is smaller than Rails in term of amount  dependent  
>> frameworks.
>> >
>> > Other than that, I think that they are pretty much similar.
>> >
>> > Linh.
>> >
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