Here’s my own personal store of interesting crap I picked up in merbcamp. I’ll add to this as the talks go on.
carllerche is a pretty cool guy for adding useful stuff to the merb router for me mauth is pretty sweet When can I get a 4K tv in my living room? FiveRuns tuneup for merb webrat looks to [...]
Tagged Merb, merbcampOur app is very (JSON) web-service heavy, and so having helpful error messages in our web service documents is pretty important. Luckily, Merb makes this, like everything, a metric shitton easier than it is in rails. There are a couple poorly documented things I had to stumble through, so I thought I would write some [...]
Tagged howto, Merb, RubyIn several of my pages, I have a side-bar menu-y thingie. I didn’t want to have to rewrite a controller-specific layout each time, but luckily Merb supports something similar to Rails’s content_for block that I wrote about earlier. In Merb, its done using throw_content(API) and catch_content(API).
Put the catch_content into your application layout view. You probably [...]
Tagged howto, Merb, RubyI saw this post by Stephen Bartholomew and thought that it was a pretty neat idea, so I adapted it for Merb applications. Merb already has the Merb::Config for storing config options, so I just added the config options to that, rather than the AppConfig class used in Steve’s post. That also greatly simplifies its [...]
Tagged Merb, Ruby