Is *anyone* using Merb?
So Merb is all the rage, and I’m honestly pretty excited by having a viable alternative to Rails. I’m so, so tired of tracking down problems in my code and digging through the unnecessarily magikal Rails APIs. So I go off and start investigating Merb, but guess what…I can’t find even one site that claims to use it. If Merb is so great, where are the sites that are built with it? If you know of one, please post a comment here. Thanks.
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http://wiki.merbivore.com/about/using_merb
Why is this post so inflammatory? If only I could mod this post -1 troll.
I’d usually delete posts like this - since this is meant to be a link site, but I’ll let this one slide. He/she seems to want to use Merb but wants social proof before doing so. I’d also be interested in the answer to this question.
Yes, it’s a he, and I wasn’t trying to be a troll. I’m sincerely interested…has anything significant been built with Merb yet?
I’d love to hear about people that use Merb, too. Too bad the original poster wasn’t so eloquent in asking the question.
YellowPages is the first that comes to mind. SproutCore is the other. If I remember correctly, Yehuda Katz (Merb maintainer) is fond of saying that Apple indirectly uses Merb because they use SproutCore.
It is reasonable to create something in an alternate framework as a learning experience, for fun, or for some other reason, even if no Fortune-500 company uses it. If not for early-adopters, Rails wouldn’t be as far along as it is, and Merb may not exist at all.
Interesting…I thought YellowPages.com was the posterchild for Rails. They’ve switched to Merb?
It would be less a “troll” article if the person used their own name and/or a login account.
YellowPages is not simply one site, or simply one service. They use both Rails and Merb, for different things. I do not know the specifics. (This information was gleaned from both a Merb article I read, and a gentlemen who interviewed there recently. So, it is not concrete, but not thin air, either.)
YellowPages.com is being switched over to using Merb exclusively if I recall correctly from my chats with the developers.
From the RubyLearning interview with Matt Aimonetti: http://rubylearning.com/blog/2008/12/18/matt-aimonetti-why-on-earth-would-you-ignore-merb/
RL>> Is Merb being used by companies? Can you name a few? Matt>> We have a list of people using Merb on the wiki. The best thing to do is to check there. Some names I have in mind would be of course Apple via Sproutcore which is used for MobileMe. Yellow Pages which now uses Merb for their service tier. I heard Wikipedia is using Merb on a small project lead by Hampton Catlin (the Haml guy). Microsoft/powerset is using Merb. I believe hulu.com used to use Merb a long time ago, but I’m not sure whether they are still using it. Some other companies prefer not to mention these kind of things, but if you look for job offers you will find companies like Adobe looking for Merbists.I’m feeling the same way right now. I really love Merb, but I think it needs to grow before I use it for something big. I’ll keep using it for smaller projects that don’t require anything out of the norm.
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