I've got five camping apps in production. They're mostly CRUDs with some basic searching/e-mailing/etc. I use a few third party libraries; haml, paper_trail, rack/csrf and redcloth being the main ones. I haven't had too much need beyond those but your mileage will vary obviously.
What Camping lacks is a lot of the fluff, but that's what I like the most about it. It keeps things simple. Dave On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Jenna Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Dave _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
