Oh, yeah! I'll see if my clone has any free time... :-) Seriously though, I'm drowning right now, but if there's any way I can help that doesn't require too much time, I'll do it.
(I'm actually writing a couple of tiny Merb sites this week (I hope), in part to see how Merb differs, and in part because with luck I can offload a bit of work onto my brother, who is a Rails programmer.) Chas. David Pollak wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Jon Hancock <shellsha...@gmail.com > <mailto:shellsha...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > David, > I'm in the same boat. I have an app I originally coded in Rails. > Then I recoded it in Merb (much better, but now I'm unhappy with the > merb-rails merger). I'm testing out lift now to see about recoding it > once again before the app gets too complex. I also have another app > or two to build and would like a single framework to grow with. > > I'm not interested in ditching ruby/merb for performance reasons as > merb is ok for my needs. I'm interested in lift as I would like one > "go forward" language (I've been tracking scala for a few years now) > and am not compeltely happy with ruby or its frameworks. > > Hope this list doesn't mind me peppering it with noob questions as I > spend the next week or two seeing if I can quickly recode my app with > lift. > > > Keep peppering. Perhaps you and Charles Munat could team up and write > the "Lift for recovering Rails developers guide". > > > > thanks, Jon > > On Feb 28, 6:21 pm, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com > <mailto:feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Ikai Lan <ikai....@gmail.com > <mailto:ikai....@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm looking to learn Lift coming from working with Ruby on > Rails for a > > > while and I've been voraciously consuming the documentation and > > > tutorials that are available on the internet. There are a few > things I > > > really like about Lift so far: > > > > > - Out of the box Comet support > > > - Rapid development (incremental compiles are awesome) > > > - Being able to design without having to think of the > request/response > > > cycle* > > > > > I'm putting an asterisk on the last item because I'm a bit confused > > > how this will work in a production application running two or more > > > load balanced Lift instances of the same application. > > > > You need a load balancer that's either JSESSIONID aware or can be > tuned to > > work with Lift's feature that re-writes URLs in such a way that > it's easy to > > have a load balancer send the requests back to the specific > server that > > houses the Lift session. > > > > > The fact that > > > form processing can happen without inspecting GET/POST params or > > > dealing with data that needs to life longer than a standard request > > > cycle is pretty neat, but it raises questions about horizontal > > > scalability. Where is the session data stored? > > > > In the app server where the session was initialized. > > > > > If it is in-memory by > > > default, are there any best practices for sharing session data > across > > > application servers, or is the recommended solution to use load > > > balancer affinity? > > > > The latter. > > > > With all this being said, I have significant operational > experience with the > > highest volume RoR powered site. A quad-core Intel/AMD box > running Lift > > could have handled all of its traffic. So, unless you're > expecting to have > > significantly more traffic than Twitter... unless you're site is > saturating > > a gigabit ethernet card, you can run it on a single server with Lift. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > > > > > > Ikai > > > > -- > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > <http://liftweb.net> > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > <http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890> > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
