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

[Andy Maleh]

Yeah, Sinatra is kinda like Rails 1.0, only simpler.
A similar framework is RubyWaves, a Resource-Oriented Web framework that
offers a cleaner and more modular routing architecture than Rails. At its
simplest, it works just like Sinatra. Yet, it can be augmented with the MVC
pattern and work more like Rails/Merb if need be. Also, supports RACK
middleware just like Sinatra/Rails/Merb.

Andy

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Drew Olson <olsonas at gmail.com> wrote:

> + 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 Not horribly out of date...That would be more like "Hey guys there is a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 <http://sinatra.github.com/> ?  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 I hope I'm not to horribly out of date on this, I've just been forwarded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><dchelimsky at gmail.com>
>> * wrote:
>>
>> From: David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> <dchelimsky at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Chirb] Rails vs Merb
>> To: "Chirb discussion list" <chicagogroup-members-list at rubyforge.org><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> <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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