After 3 days of playing with rails I feel like there's so much magic happening under the hood for a very simple application I want. So the same way that I like CodeIgniter, I went ahead and start looking for a similar framework.

The first candidate was Ramaze but having some background from Rails, I don't like the fact that you need to specify on the main controller that you want to start the execution from there. So I keep searching and from the very same website of Ramaze, I found a link that contains the names Merb and Sinatra.

Now I know from the first look that it can't be Sintra , So that left me with Merb. At first I was a bit frustrated because I was looking for the Rails/CI like screencasts but there's only a few of them + the documentation isn't that good yet.

But they have an opensource book and that's what caught my attention. So I started reading the installation guide, there was a small problem on the process but one googling and I immediately find the answer.

121:~ marconi$ sudo gem install merb
Password:
ERROR:  Error installing merb: dm-core requires addressable (~> 2.1, runtime)

But installing dm-core fix it:

121:~ marconi$ sudo gem install dm-core
Password:
Successfully installed addressable-2.1.0
Successfully installed dm-core-0.10.1
2 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for addressable-2.1.0...
Installing ri documentation for dm-core-0.10.1...
Installing RDoc documentation for addressable-2.1.0...
Installing RDoc documentation for dm-core-0.10.1...
121:~ marconi$