Merb Dependencies and Bundler: Conquered! (Screencast)
A lot of people have recently been expressing that, in general, they quite enjoy working with Merb. The only real pain (for me as well) has been dealing with all the dependencies. Well, fixing all those shenanigans has been the focus of this past week. I, for one, am quite happy with the new bundling solution that has been released with Merb 1.0.5. Mad props to Yehuda for all the hard work put into this.
The Merb / Rails merger announcement, an inside opinion
The announcement that the Merb and Rails team are joining forces has just been made (in case you have been living under a rock, you can see Yehuda’s post here and DHH’s post here). This is truly a historic event for the ruby community. I’m sure that this news has brought up a number of concerns and emotions, as it has for me. I thought that I would recount these past few days