Category Archives: Merb

Interesting Links: YUIRails, Ebb faster than Mongrel and thin

By Alastair | March 5, 2008

The JavaScript library I use most after prototype is YUI so a big thanks to Chetan Patil for making it much easier to use in Rails.
Ruby Inside has a post on Ebb a small and fast web server for hosting Rails and Merb applications (and soon Django).
Ebb is a small, extremely high performance Web / [...]

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Merbivore

By Alastair | November 7, 2007

Merb gets a slick new site.

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Merb on AIR – Drag and Drop Multiple File Upload

By Alastair | June 29, 2007

Merb was originally created by Ezra Zygmuntowicz to avoid some Rails upload issues.

This is one of the things that Merb was written for. Rails doesn‘t allow multiple concurrent file uploads at once without blocking an entire rails backend for each file upload. Merb allows multiple file uploads at once.

I’ve built ‘multiple’ file uploaders for Rails [...]

Also posted in AIR, ActionScript, Flex, Ruby | 37 Comments

I heart Merb

By Alastair | June 27, 2007

Yes every new framework sets my heart a flutter, but this time it’s for real.
Developing Flex/Flash on top of Rails? What if you could get ActiveRecord and RESTful routing at almost eight times the speed with 75% less RAM? How about all that and real concurrency, including true multiple file upload? All of the above [...]

Also posted in Flash, Flex, Ruby | 2 Comments