[*****UPDATE 9/21/08: I've added Rails 2.1.1 and Rails 2.2 head stats for C MRI Ruby on Mongrel. Rails 2.2 tests pretty slow and the results should not be taken seriously until the Rails team comes to a point release and optimizes. I've also added tests with the MySQL C gem and Merb seems to get [...]
As promised, here are the slides from my talk last night on Merb at the East Bay Ruby Meetup.
Merb, not rails? A practical introduction to a new framework.
***Warning: the performance results in some of the slides are invalid; refer instead to the updated merb / rails performance comparison for accurate data.
Make sure you have the JRuby warbler gem installed.
Create a warble config file from the root directory of your merb application. The command should look something like this: jruby -S warble config. The file will be placed at config/warble.rb.
Edit line 55 of warble.rb to read: config.webxml.booter = :merb
Edit line 33 of warble.rb to read: config.gems = ["merb-core","merb-more"]. [...]