Merbails consolidation may decrease the generality of some high-quality bundles of code. However, this may be better for the ruby ecosystem at large, especially

Merbails consolidation may decrease the generality of some high-quality bundles of code. However, this may be better for the ruby ecosystem at large, especially as the New Relationship Energy with ruby is starting to level off. Anyway, Merb isn't what Merb once was (mongrel+erb.) This is a special case of Three Systems (from unix philosophy) where the second system was leaner and faster :) It does seem that Sinatra has been gaining steam lately!