# Vancouver Ruby Meetup - Merb - Off the Rails - May/5 @ 7pm - Join Us **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 1, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vancouver-ruby-meetup-merb-off-the-rails-may-5-7pm-join-us/136419 "2008-05-01T22:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Hello, Join us for the open and free to all Vancouver Ruby meetup on Monday, May/5th at 7pm at the Network Hub. Vancouverite Brock Whitten who published an “Open Break-Up Letter to Rails” will talk about “Off the Rails - Why You Should Use Merb for Your Next Project”. ``` Summary: I feel that 'web services' is the future of the web and ``` Merb is more suited for this due to its speed and flexibility (it’s perfect for building an API). This talk is a quick primer on Merb: what its benefits are and why these benefits are important for a developer that is thinking about the web of tomorrow. Demonstrates building a basic RESTful API from scratch using Merb. This took about 10 min. Once we were done, we had an ‘Articles’ resource that had the 7 golden(REST) methods. All the methods for accessing the resource understood HTTP, XML, JSON and YAML. What this does for us is gives us many ways to access our resource. About Brock Whitten: I write applications using Ruby frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Merb. I am intimate with RESTful principals and am known as an AJAX junkie. I think in terms of ‘resources’ and ‘web services’. I believe whole heartedly in open-source software and have a passion for furthering my local community. ``` More @ http://vanrb.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/may-meetup Cheers. ```