Camping basically gives you a clean and simple MVC (Model-View-Controller) platform. Same as Rails, but a lot more light-weight and, in my opinion, better suited for faceless daemons like the one you're writing. In terms of the niceties you get with Camping -- for one, you can easily map your URLs to specific methods. So an HTTP POST to URL "/foo?id=9" can be mapped to method "post(id)" in module "Foo". There's also a nice view component that lets you render templates using Markaby -- ruby markup that generates XML..... but this is all probably beyond the scope of this newsgroup. Have a look at http://camping.rubyforge.org/files/README.html
Tim Perrett wrote: > Ahh good stuff - cheers for the tip about camping! > I took a brief look at the cas server, and you guys have implemented > with mongrel (and others) by subclassing from what I can see? What is > it that camping does for you by the way (in the context of cas- > server)? (apologies for the stupid question but ive never used > camping or heard of it lol) > > Cheers all > > Tim > > > On 24 Jul 2007, at 16:39, Matt Zukowski wrote: > > >> I'd strongly recommend using Camping over Rails. We wrote a similar >> application (RubyCAS-Server -- the CAS protocol uses conversational >> HTTP), and Camping was definitely the way to go. The main problem with >> Rails is that it's not asynchronous. Rails can't talk and listen at >> the >> same time, at least not within the same transaction. You might be able >> to get around this, but you'll probably find yourself doing all >> kinds of >> gymnastics. Camping doesn't have this problem. It's much better suited >> for these kinds of faceless apps anyway, since it's not weighed >> down by >> all the UI niceties you get with Rails. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > This e-mail message is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorized use or disclosure is prohibited. Le contenu du pr'esent courriel est privil'egi'e, confidentiel et soumis `a des droits d'auteur. Il est interdit de l'utiliser ou de le divulguer sans autorisation. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
