Re: [cgiapp] Ruby on Rails and CGI::Application

[Eric <suppressed>]

At 09:50 AM 4/4/2005, Michael Peters wrote:
> Owain wrote:
> > I read this post on Article on /.
> > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/1520227&tid=156&tid=1
> > which looked interesting since I am going to have a play with Ruby
> > (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20020101.html) and Ruby on Rails
> > (http://www.rubyonrails.com/) seems to fell rather similar to cgiapp in
> > a lot of senses.  I am "reading up" on Design Patterns and would like to
> > try out Ruby and this seems to be a good way to try.  Has anyone on the
> > list had a shot already and what are the main differences?
>
> Rails is more of a framework than CGI::App. It think the perl equivalent 
> is Catalyst (which is based on Maypole). And from what I can tell Catalyst 
> is an awful lot like C::A but with more stuff.
>
> For an intro on Catalyst... 
> http://search.cpan.org/~sri/Catalyst-4.34/lib/Catalyst/Manual/Intro.pod
>
> Most of the stuff added to Catalyst aren't so much a part of the 
> application, but other stuff like a built in testing framework, testing 
> server, etc. The code looks a lot like CGI::App though.
>
> > One problem I have already spotted is the likely difficulty of having
> > mod_ruby or ruby installed at an ISP good old Perl is ubiquitous.
>
> I'm sure Rails is nice, but from what I've seen (I know, I know, I should 
> really try it out first hand) it doesn't do anything that can't already be 
> done with perl (Maypole, Catalyst, C::A w/TT and Class::DBI).

I just poked around with Ruby on Rails for about 15 minutes, but it seems 
to have one feature that I have not found easily in Perl land, that is an 
easy way to deal with editing tables that have one to many relationships. 
"Easy" meaning that it doesn't look like you have to learn much at all to 
do it the first time. Some CPAN modules I have looked at that can deal with 
this don't make things easy IMHO. That was the only thing about it that 
made me thing I might use it some time.

Thanks,

Eric


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