Building your own Merb stack

The most common and recommend way of installing Merb is by running

$ sudo gem install merb

which will pull in a collection of dependencies (merb-core, merb-more, dm-core, dm-more) from RubyGems ready for you to build a Merb app. This is known as a Merb 'stack'.

You can create your own stack to provide a standard way of creating new apps with dependencies. This can be really handy for creating a standard distribution of Merb for your own use, saving you from repetitively installing dependencies for each new project.

: flesh out the details, with some code examples

1. grab a copy of the merb gemspec (the merb gem is just a metapackage)
2. make your changes
3. build your gem, and publish

Jack Dempsey wrote a good blog post about creating a custom stack using templater.