MountainWest RubyConf 2008 Videos
March 30th, 2008
Videos have started to go online:
http://mtnwestrubyconf2008.confreaks.com
The one to keep an eye out for: Ruby Internals. One of the better ones, maybe the best (though Evan’s talk was quite good, too, so go watch that one now).
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March 30th, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Very interesting presentation about Merb. I will try it in my new application.
James, what do you think about Merb?
March 31st, 2008 at 11:05 AM
Merb initially stuck me as Rails-lite, and I preferred the concepts behind Nitro, and now Ramaze.
So I don’t have much experience with Merb.
But the talk showed a very interesting feature, one found in Nitro and Ramaze, but with an extra spin: controller actions that take arguments the way regular object methods do.
In Nitro (and I think Ramaze) you only get these arguments if you pass data via the URL; post values still must come from a params hash, Merb uses (I believe; must watch the video) Parsetree to inspect the method nodes in the AST and use that info to extract data from HTTP posts and pass it to the methods. That’s quite slick.