Its agnosticism is attractive in certain situations. Rails is rather tied to ActiveRecord (Merb uses DataMapper by default, but you can choose others) and Prototype (though Rails has an unofficial jQuery plugin)). Merb was designed ground up to be agnostic on database, view and JavaScript choices.
Merb is "lighter", faster in many situations, and has a different "flavor" generally, that you'll either love or feel indifferent to. It was designed to be thread safe almost from day one so this element is well tested, whereas Rails is only just getting into that area with Rails 2.2.
Disclaimer: I like to support Merb, but I'm still a Rails user generally.
Merb is "lighter", faster in many situations, and has a different "flavor" generally, that you'll either love or feel indifferent to. It was designed to be thread safe almost from day one so this element is well tested, whereas Rails is only just getting into that area with Rails 2.2.
Disclaimer: I like to support Merb, but I'm still a Rails user generally.