So, I realize if you are reading this you actually care about Rails and Merb. Therefore I hope you are not absolutely perturbed at the lack of quality content here. :)

Out of strange curiosity I decided to see which framework was truly lighter in “default” form. I simply ran each’s command to create a blank projects then looked at the “size” of the created directory.

<code>
$ rails test
</code>

The resulting project weighed in at 400KB.

<code>
$ merb-gen app test
</code>

Merb’s project weighs in at 104KB.

Amazing? No, not really. But, now I’m wondering what the size of a Grails project is…