Category Archives: Merb

Authentication Setup with Merb Auth and Merb Stack

This week I was lucky enough to spend two days at the Merb Sprint. At the sprint I spent some time testing the install and setup process for the Merb Stack and merb_auth (the merb authentication gem). Dan Neighman (aka hassox) spent some time with me going over the merb_auth process and this is my [...]

Merb Overheard Launched

Recently, Merb has been getting a lot of attention. With significant changes leading up to the 1.0 release, and now with it’s own conference, the Merb community needs a centralized place where relevant information can be found. Say hello to Merb Overheard.
Merb Overheard follows the planet-type aggregation sites similar to Planet Ruby on Rails and [...]

Merb 0.9.3 and Feather Error: undefined method `empty?’ for nilNilClass

Recently when setting up this blog using Feather, a new blog app written with Merb, I started getting the following error when hitting the home page:
undefined method `empty?’ for nil:NilClass
Turns out there is a bug is merb-cache (part of merb-more) that is causing the problem. It’s patched in wycatz’ branch so pull down his latest [...]