Making today worse so tomorrow seems better.
First Post
What do we have here?
It would seem to be yet another blog, and it is. This one, however, is built with merb and CouchDB so building it gave me a chance to experiment with some interesting projects that I don’t get to use in my daily life as a professional web developer.
The code for this site is available to the many-eyes beasts of the Interwebs here:
git://sprocket.slackworks.com/srv/git/blarg.git
It requires merb and friends, as well as an instance of CouchDB to be running somewhere. There are a few reasons I chose merb over Rails (which is what I generally use professionally) to do this:
- It comes with no pre-packaged ORM. I wanted to use CouchDB, so none of the existing ORMs would really work for me. My previous experiences of trying to rip ActiveRecord out of Rails have been frustrating.
- It has more flexible routing than Rails. I realize there are ways to accomplish the things I’m doing here in Rails, but the merb routes seem clearer to me, less hand-wavy. And perhaps most importantly:
- It’s not Rails. I use Rails all day long, and I wanted to see what else is out there.
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