Announcing: The Merb Way by Foy Savas

Merb is definitely the next big thing in the Ruby world. I don't think that it will ever displace Rails as king of modern web frameworks, but Merb's popularity for smaller web projects and simple web services is hard to ignore. By signing Foy Savas to write The Merb Way, I am hoping to continue the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series tradition of giving readers the best possible information from experienced practitioners.

Foy has been actively involved in the Merb open-source ecosystem for over a year, particularly with DataMapper. He uses Merb in his day-to-day activities as a full-time application developer and is an enthusiastic evangelist for the framework. He will be working on The Merb Way book full-time, and we hope to have it published early next year.

Incidentally, you can meet Foy in person in Boston on November 17-20 at the Addison-Wesley Voices that Matter: Professional Ruby Conference where he will be introducing the audience to the wonders of Merb development.

Comments

[Glenn Gillen]

Great news. There has been numerous occasions where I've wanted to push another merb app out the door, but the ease of getting a rails one to do the same thing usually dictates I go with the older and familiar. Hopefully a week or so with a book like this will help me break down that barrier

[elise]

Nice. Yehuda Katz wasn't available ? He's a merb maintainer (datamapper too, i think) and a pretty decent writer, too.

[Josh]

Good news, good books are essential for the lasting success of a framework.
@elise
Yehuda Katz is already engaged writing a book on merb for manning, called Merb in action.

[g.zhen.ning]

Merb maybe great, but I still love rails, love rails way.

[Scott Ballantyne]

When is this book planned to be released? I'm eager to take a look.