2008-02-16
"I am creating a small site using Merb, DataMapper and RSpec, all in all a very enjoyable experience. I did however have problem getting the test database to be automigrated when running the specs, as I am used to in Rails.
As Google did not help, I turned to #merb on IRC, and got immediate help.
Two alternatives:
Run rake MERB_ENV=test dm:db:automigrate before running rake specs Insert DataMapper::Base.auto_migrate! into your spec/spec_helper."
2007-12-08
"I have used Rails on a daily basis for almost a year now, and before that I was a night time hangaround. While I am definitely a happier programmer using Rails than anything built on Java, I still feel that it can get better.
First of all I want more things to be plugins. And really, they should not be plugins at all but gems instead.
Why plugins? We use RSpec instead of Test/Unit, HAML instead of erb and are seriously looking into JQuery instead of Prototype."