Mr eel
Just What The Bloody Hell is a Merb?
I’ve posted about Merb a few times, but I noticed I haven’t actually given anything like an introduction to the framework, which might be useful considering it’s not too well-known. Well, I’m not gonna do that since other nicer, better-spoken people have done it already. So here is a few links to get you started.
Merb
The official site, which has got a good overview of the framework and installations. I recommend starting with the Why Merb? page, which will hopefully convince you to give it a serious look. After that, look at the Features page.
Merb & Datamapper: Getting Rolling
A quick introduction to installing Merb and DataMapper. It should be enough to get you started coding. A slight aside; DataMapper is a really awesome ORM, my preferred choice when using Merb.
Wycats’ Introduction to Plugins
Plugins in Merb are implemented as Gems, not a custom format. The benefits for doing this are manifold. Here Wycats gives a good overview of both creating and using Merb plugins.
Wycats on the Mailer
Merb’s mailer is a very nice, well thought out bit of work.
Hassox - The Great Merb Speedup
Merb is pretty fast. The code in trunk is even faster. There has been loads of good work in the last month or so, which has seen Merb speed up many times over. Hassox has got some rather tasty benchmarks 
Hassox - The Provides API
Previously Merb had a respond_to API similar to that in Rails. This has since been replaced with a cleaner alternative; the provides declaration.
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