Merb Way

The first comprehensive guide to Merb - the highly-agile new Web development framework for Ruby.

* Timely, relevant, and thorough: will publish right after the release of Merb 1.0, riding on growing excitement about Merb amongst Ruby and Rails developers worldwide.
* Covers both Merb and the tools most widely used with it, including DataMapper
* Follows the same successful format as our best-seller The Rails Way, and includes a foreword by Obie Fernandez, author of The Rails Way.

The Merb web framework is attracting great excitement from the large Ruby and Rails programming community for its exceptional flexibility, agility, and performance. The Merb Way is the first comprehensive guide to using, extending, and deploying Merb. It's organized to follow the highly successful format of our previous best-seller, The Rails Way, and contains a foreword from that book's author, Obie Fernandez. Like its predecessor, this book can be read cover-to-cover as a tutorial, while offering modular coverage that makes it an ideal task reference. Foy Savas systematically covers everything developers need to know to build Merb applications, both large and small, and taking full advantage of its remarkable agility. Savas is not only involved in the Merb project as an open source contributor: he uses Merb every day as a professional developer. Drawing on this practical expertise, he reveals nuances that make Merb different, and shows these differences can be used to full advantage. To maximize this book's practical value, he also covers the tools most widely used alongside Merb, including the DataMapper ORM; the RSpec tester (and associated behavior-driven development techniques); as well as several leading Merb plugins. Finally, the book also contains a detailed appendix on migrating applications from Rails to Merb.