Merb Slices in Rails 3: The goodies coming along more efficiently

As most of you already know Merb Slices are the mix of merb app and plugin, which carries feature goodies of both. Its the part of an app which can itself work as an application and can be incorporated in any other merb application. For example remember Rails engines. It gives the same functionality but is 100 times better that that.

While Merb is merging into Rails. In Rails 3 we will be witnessing this remarkable feature of Merb in Rails as well. If the planning of new core team goes well...We will be able to mount any of our rails application in another very easily. Core team has given a tentative date for Rails 3 by next RailsConf in May. I can not wait to explore all these  good features. Just keeping my fingers crossed…

Merb + Rails == Great Software

So you heard the news??? Yes, Merb and Rails are going to merge in Rails 3 If thats true it will be a great merger o all times in ruby community. The largest framework of Ruby glued with the fastest one will be cool.

One of the thing which I loved in Merb is its agnostic feature. Specially ORM to quote. As I found Datamapper to be more efficient and useful then ActiveRecord in Rails. If we can use Datamapper in Rails it will be the coolest thing.

While trying Merb I also felt like most of the things are implemented in the same way as in Rails. So the basic difference is just in the values Merb advertise or rather built on …

* Being Agnostic

* Prefer Plugin

I am just waiting for Rails to adopt those values so it could be more efficient and more lovable