On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:48 pm, doug livesey wrote:
> Typically, I decided to use the Christmas break to learn Merb! > Has anyone suggested how long it might take to get to Rails 3.0 / > Merb 2.0? > I might just hang back for that & spend some quality time with an > old flame (relearning C++ properly). Yehuda Katz has promised everyone that the transition will go smoothly, so I don't see any reason not to use Merb in the mean time. As for whether you'd get any benefit from that, I don't know. But Merb is working very nicely in its current incarnation, and doesn't take that much to learn if you know Rails. After all, most code for most web-apps is business logic (and in Ruby that means ORM-related) or front-end (ie JS), and not web-framework-specific. I can think of more fun ways to spend the holidays than learning C++! How about Objective-C/Cocoa (or MacRuby, if you want to combine the two)... if you have a Mac that is. Or Erlang/Haskell, if you want to dabble in the functional world (Real World Haskell is out now). Or Scala, if you want to play with something on top of the JVM that isn't Ruby. Hell, there's loads of good stuff around now, that doesn't involve doing manual memory management ;) Ashley -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://aviewfromafar.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
