2008 September | Something Unimportant

Sep 29

Mack Framework

By andrew

The Mack Framework is a pretty nifty combination of Rails, Merb and many other Ruby frameworks. It’s built off Rack and therefore should be simple to deploy. I really want to work with it, but what to do? Does anyone have any ideas? I need a project.

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