Notes on MerbDay Atlanta 2008

hbeaver — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:48:37 +0000

Ironically, the two most interesting items for me personally were not directory related to Merb at all. I was quite impressed with the CSS capabilities of SASS and CouchDB gave me hope that being stuck in the rigidity of columns in SQL is not always my path. Here’s my my Merbday summary, iteration retrospective format:

STOP:

Assuming Merb is “fragmentation” (so said someone smarter than me ) of the Rails community and a real effort to improve on Ruby as the defacto web programming language.

START:

Using ruby-prof in Rails projects and Kcachegrind to profile apps. (thanks for Yehuda Katz at www.engineyard.com )
Playing with Merb on a real project and focus on understand slices and interaction with other slices.
Investigate writing an Admin or basic CMS slice with someone else.

CONTINUE:

Loving Rails and not abandon it as yet.

Enabling logging (logs) on MERB in development

hbeaver — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:29:01 +0000

MERB does not have development logging turned on by default something I like very much in Rails. To turn it on, uncomment this line:

c[:log_file]  = Merb.root / "log" / "development.log"

In the config/environments/development.rb file.

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Notes on MerbDay Atlanta 2008

Enabling logging (logs) on MERB in development