11.28.07
Even More Rapid Development
The success of the Ruby on Rails web framework is somewhat based on its ability to soothe the pain caused by the not-so-rapid development process of other, so-called “enterprise-ready” frameworks. But Rails is not the only Ruby web framework, and not the fastest one for initial prototyping(*). The faster (more rabid?) ones I’ve looked at:
- Camping. From the the quirky mind of why-the-luck-stiff (no other name given) it inspires absurdly fast development (and absurdity!).
- Sinatra. Some people who have tried Camping have moved on to Sinatra - it has a clean syntax and a simple metaphor (Sinatra attends events) and is supported by a larger team.
Its hard to imagine what faster development would look like - maybe a web interface for defining Camping or Sinatra event handlers? Code the app directly from the browser!
(*) Footnote: Note that I use the word “prototype” because that is all I have done with them - I see no reason they couldn’t scale as well as Rails or any other web framework.