Datamapper is a great little ORM (object-relational mapping), but it’s still a little rough around the edges (as of this post, anyway). This homebrew weblog application was initially using ActiveRecord with Merb, but with release of the 1.0.x branch of Merb, I thought I'd give Datamapper anoth...

I have been experimenting with Merb for a while as an alternative to Rails. Compared to Rails, Merb is a lightweight framework. By default Merb strips away a lot of unnecessary cruft, and in doing so does not include a default Object Relational Mapping (ORM), such as the popular ActiveRecord. Though...

I have been experimenting with Merb for a while as an alternative to Rails. Compared to Rails, Merb is a lightweight framework. By default Merb strips away a lot of unnecessary cruft, and in doing so does not include a default Object Relational Mapping (ORM), such as the popular ActiveRecord. Though...

As a follow-up to Rails || Merb, I’m going to highlight some of the differences between ActiveRecord (AR) and Datamapper. Merb is ORM agnostic so you can still use AR if you want to, but I thought I might as well try DataMapper out. Datamapper (DM) isn’t really production ready at the moment as ...

We’ve just cut the 0.5.0 release of merb. This release has numerous improvements and features, such as: Improved Haml support including pre-compiling and fast inlining of haml partials. built in Sass support, just add a sass directory in public/stylesheets, it will automatically regenerate the...