merb

Much of Merb's momentum has been merged into Rails 3, but one-time Engine Yard developer Daniel Neighman has found himself moving in a new direction, inspired by what they had once achieved with Merb Slices. Since then, he's taken fully-mountable Rack applications to the extreme in

Have you ever yearned for something like Rails's script/console or Merb's merb -i in your other Rack based apps?

If so, then Marcin Kulik's racksh, inspired by Heroku's console, might be for you.

In this new post to his KillerPHP blog Stefan Mischook voices his opinion on why he thinks PHP is the "King of the Web" (and wonders what happened to Ruby on Rails).

InternetNews: "The Ruby on Rails (RoR) open source framework is about to get more modular and faster -- thanks to some benefits of its recent merger with Ruby rival Merb."

Dash, a new metrics service from FiveRuns, has been moved to private beta (for which you can apply) allowing interested developers to take part in assessing a new way to monitor your applications.

Can you remember what a hideous chore it was to deploy Ruby-based apps (Rails apps being a key example) before early 2008?

FastCGI, proxying schemes, plain old CGI - it was all a bit of a mess.

Testing is a firmly ingrained part of the Ruby culture: you probably ran across Test::Unit not long after you first started writing Ruby code (though it wouldn't be surprising if you ignored it for a while).

Rubyology is a Ruby-based podcast chaired by Chris Matthieu.

Its focus is on interviewing interesting Ruby (and Rails) developers - finding out about their projects, what makes them tick, and extracting their insights into the Ruby and Rails worlds.

Most Ruby developers should be familiar with Rack, an interface / library that abstracts away a lot of the banalities of hooking up application code to HTTP servers.

It’s used by several Ruby Web application frameworks already, some as a default - such as Merb, and others as an optional extra - such as Rails.