ChicagoRuby: Downtown - The Great Migration: From Merb to Rails 3 at Typekit
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Late in 2008 the Rails and Merb development teams merged to create Rails 3, the most robust, most extensible, best release of everyone's favorite Ruby web framework. But while those competing teams merged, their frameworks didn't. Though Rails 3 shows plenty of influence from Merb and its creators, today Merb itself is a legacy framework, with no clear, supported path for Merb apps to move forward to Rails 3 without significant effort. Which isn't to say it's impossible, or a bad idea. At Typekit, we're in the process of migrating our original Merb-based web app to Rails 3. Developer David Demaree will talk about why we're doing it, the processes and tools we're using to make the migration possible (including Rack and RSpec 2), and some problems we've run into along the way.
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