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Rails Alternatives: Merb, Sinatra & Ramaze

Written by max.rb on May 28th, 2009 — View Comments

Over the past few months I’ve been on the hunt for a Ruby web framework to replace Rails as my weapon of choice when building an online presence. Rails struck me as being overly heavy in this context and I wanted something lighter.
I was primarily looking for a web framework that, out of the box, [...]

Bridging the gap

Written by max.rb on May 5th, 2009 — View Comments

Mike Gunderloy started off this week by announcing an exciting new initiative: Rails Bridge. Its mission statement says it all:
To create an inclusive and friendly Ruby on Rails community
To give a bit of context to my excitement… Up until this time I could sum up my view of the Rails community in one sentence:
Novices need [...]

Getting Classy with Sinatra

Written by max.rb on April 7th, 2009 — View Comments

I had heard about the Sinatra Ruby web DSL a while back but I had not had a chance to play with it until a few days ago. I’m happy to say it was a highly enjoyable experience. I accomplished what I was trying to do very quickly thanks to the good documentation and intuitive [...]

WP Framework

Written by max.rb on February 28th, 2009 — View Comments

Here is the first peak into that box of stones I mentioned on the about page.
WP Framework is a blank Word Press(WP) theme that you can use to easily setup a your own theme for your WP blog. When I started this blog I debated whether or not I wanted to spend the time putting [...]