On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Mirko <[email protected]> wrote: > > This does sound very promising, although to be honest I'm not sure > what exactly the difference is between mountable apps and slices. > Don't slices already allow you to mount a self-encapsulated sub- > application (consisting of models, views, and controllers) at an > arbitrary path? What do mountable apps add on top of that?
I'm hoping the answer is "an end to special cases, like /lib file stubs and a separate 'slice' executable." Sure, slices _theoretically_ can run standalone, but they don't really do it the same way as apps that aren't slices do it. The standalone part requires hidden magic. And that's annoying as crap when you need to figure out what initialization magic goes where for running Cucumber, or configuring a Passenger rackup file, etc. Ask me how I know this. I eventually gave up and recreated my slice as a regular app, figuring I'll backport it back into a slice once I have it better developed. If, by that time, Rails 3 lets me just plain *run the app* inside another app, I am a happy puppy. -- Have Fun, Steve Eley ([email protected]) ESCAPE POD - The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine http://www.escapepod.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
