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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, [...]

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 [...]

Ruby on Linux with jEdit

Written by max.rb on March 2nd, 2009 — View Comments

I recently moved from Windows to a Linux development environment and needed to find good text editor – particularly one that was (or could be made) friends with Ruby. Ideally this editor would be cross platform because, on occasion I do have to load up Windows and if possible I wanted to avoid having a [...]