A merbist is:
A person who is dedicated to the economic or medicinal uses of Merb .
One skilled in the harvesting and collection of medicinal code (see Ruby ).
One trained or skilled in the therapeutic use of merbal code.
Traditional French merbist: one who is trained or skilled in the dispensing of merbal prescriptions; traditional French Merb doctor. Similarly, Traditional Ruby Merbist: one who is trained or skilled in the dispensing of merbal prescriptions in the Rubyist tradition.
A merbist is a professional trained in merbism, the use of Merb (also called merbivorism or merbiism) to treat others.
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Deploying a bundled merb app (merb 0.9.7+)From: merbist.com
Post Date: 2008-09-23 16:32:41
Since Merb 0.9.7 the Merb team decided to change the way you can bundle an app. Until 0.9.7 you would use the merb-freezer plugin which was supporting git submodules and gems. The only problem was that you still had to install merb-freezer on your server and it had to stay in sync with your app… kinda lame
Ginger roots, great for deployment issues
Instead, after a lot of discussions, we decided to add this feature to merb-core and let you bundle all your dependencies in a bund...
more merbist scrapbook (sept-25)From: merbist.com
Post Date: 2008-09-25 09:34:17
Fennel, one of the primary ingredients of absinthe helps developers' creativity.
Good news regarding Merb slices: the new router allows you to mount a slice directly as: /the-slice-action (previously it had to be /the-slice/something)
On IRC, Nagash came up with an interesing snippet allowing you to easily serve static views (like Django’s generic views) (Merb::Template.template_for is PRIVATE so use it at your own risk) The Core team is investigati...
more News from the front line - Sept 24 2008From: merbist.com
Post Date: 2008-09-24 09:47:24
Dear Merbivores/Merbists/Merbians,
It’s hard to believe that in less that 20 days , Merb 1.0 will be released! We are all really happy to to be almost there but we have to be honest and admit that we are also under pressure.
We are all dreaming of a post 1.0 world but in the meantime we have to focus on last minutes bugs and optimization.
During the last week or so, we made a lot of progress, the API is now “almost” frozen and General Katz is focusing on making ...
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