Hi Tim! Camping is a great choice. It's really lean, and quite robust and well performing. So far as rails plugins go - the default choice of database adaptors for Camping is ActiveRecord - so most ActiveRecord-related rails plugins will work. Camping doesn't have things like rail's form builders and validators and the likes, and it also doesn't have activesupport. You might find that installing the activesupport gem and requiring it at the start of your app makes more rails specific code work, by adding in support for things like String#ends_with?
Overall, there really isn't very much to miss. Camping provides what you need of controllers and views, while the outer shell of rack provides extras you might like. A sampler box of rack features might have some of these: Several flavours of session storage and cookies - including the fastest variety, used by the likes of google and yahoo; Stream compression filters, to gzip whatever you send out, streamlining cinematic immersion and minimising wasted bytes; http validators; html validators; url mapping to bundle several camping apps together in to one; the option of picking and choosing - you can use camping for some of your app and rails or any of the rest for another part. I suppose the best feature of camping is the community though. If there's anything you need there's surely someone happy to help. — Bluebie On 30/08/2011, at 8:40 PM, Tim Uckun wrote: > I am a long time rails developer looking for a new framework which is > leaner and less complex than rails. Camping appeals to me for a lot > of reasons but I am curious about how a moderately conplex app would > look like in camping. In rails my Gemfile is full of third party > libraries and I am wondering if they will all (or most) work with > camping. My guess is that they won't and I am worried that I will have > to code up all kinds of functionality I take for granted in the rails > world. > > Maybe that's a good thing but I wanted to ask you guys about your > experience in taking advantage of other people's work. > > Cheers. > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
