In this interview filmed at RubyFringe, Yehuda Katz talks about web framework Merb.
Merb follows a few design principles that distinguish it from Ruby on Rails. As Yehuda explains, Merb aims to provide a stable public API which can be used, and which is warded off from the actual Merb implementation. With that, 3rd party plugin providers don't have to worry about some change in the Merb implementation breaking their code. Hand in hand with this is a strict documentation for Merb code. Merb uses documentation conventions to describe the contract of a method, ie. the expected argument types and return types. As Yehuda mentions, the conventions resembled the one of the Ruby documentation tool Yard.
Other topics are the perils of Rails' Module#alias_method_chain (and why Merb won't use it) and how the Merb team handles Monkey Patching (Open Classes).
Watch "Yehuda Katz Explains Merb".
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Great talk
by Kent Fenwick,
Nice talk, also check out rubyconf's talk
by diego scataglini,
Great talk
by Kent Fenwick,
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Thanks for this talk Yehuda,
I have been thinking about giving Merb 1.0 a go again and after hearing your views on Alias Method Chain, I think I am on board!
Great job.
Kent
Nice talk, also check out rubyconf's talk
by diego scataglini,
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People that found this talk interesting might also want to check out this talk form rubyconf 2008