I have decided to go back to writing all my personal projects in Ramaze. The only reason being I feel I need to broaden my knowledge horizon, and I feel it is the most complete and stable alternative ruby framework out there. I also see it having longevity. I am also quite impatient with waiting for rails 3 and I don’t want to have to use hacks to achieve things like using datamapper. Ramaze, like Merb is component based. So you can mix and match more. And although I stopped using Ramaze before because I was tired of all the changing, I think for the foreseeable future it is going to be Rails at work, Ramaze at home. I think it gives quite a good balance, and also allows me to use other ruby technologies/gems/plugins that at the moment don’t fit in smoothly with Rails. And it is my plan to keep on using both frameworks in this way beyond the release of Rails 3, nothing wrong with having more knowledge.
Also look out soon for my follow up posts on Rails lasagna. I have been quite busy, but I will follow up on my promise to write about it.
