LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

If Rails is a Ghetto, Merb is a Whorehouse

Don’t get confused over the title, I’m not trying to punch the Merb community as Zed did to Rails. A grasshopper like me don’t even qualify to do such a rant. I’m actually trying to pimp Merb!
Merb is the newest addition to Ruby town. First, it was started just to satisfy the unfulfilled desires of […]


Contact Form using Merb & DataMapper

Major benefit of using Rails to develop web applications is its smart conventions, which promote developers to adapt to common patterns and avoid wasting time in reinventing the wheel. Rails is strictly bonded with a database and has a pre-defined directory structure. Though these conventions are helpful in common cases, it reduces the flexibility of […]