I like the name. We are down with jQuery. But it would need to support PostgreSQL to get any traction at FlightAware.
You might have a look at yajl-tcl for generating valid JSON really quickly. The library includes returning PostgreSQL query results as JSON. It can parse, too, but the results are left-to-right so it's gotta be taken further to be useful. On 1/27/11 10:49 AM, "Damon Courtney" <[email protected]> wrote: >With this latest project of mine I actually started work on a framework >built solely around Rivet. I'm not shooting for something that works >across web servers or something that is portable, I'm writing something >that takes advantage of all the things Rivet has to offer. I call it >Skyscraper. > >It kinda sucks right now because I've only really just started it, but >it's coming along. It's based on many of the ideas used in Rails but in >a Tcl way. When I looked at Ruby and Rails once before, there was a lot >to like about it. Right now it's sort of hardwired for MySQL and jQuery >as the external components, but that's purely because it's what I'm >using. The ties to jQuery at this point are not much more than just >including the tags to include it, and MOST of the SQL code is generic >with only a few MySQL-specific things. > >It uses TDBC as the database backend, so it can easily support any >database Tcl does, and the rest is all straight Tcl or Rivet. It doesn't >use TclOO though it probably could if someone had a strong feeling about >it. I found when using Rails that the object stuff felt kinda' forced. >Like you didn't really need it, but because you're in Ruby, that's just >the way you do it. Do you really need a new object for each request? >Isn't that what Rivet's ::request namespace is doing for you? > >I'm open to hearing what people have to say on this topic. I needed a >good MVC framework for writing Rivet apps, so I made one. I'm up for >taking suggestions as I write it if anyone has any. I hope to include it >as part of Rivet one day. Unlike TclOO that was supposedly made to build >other OO frameworks on top of, I'd like to see Rivet ship with one >framework to rule them all and right out of the box. > >D > > >On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Massimo Manghi wrote: > >> Arnulf's work is the only serious attempt I know to endow Tcl >>programming with a consistent framework for web development. Still, the >>SF site has no download to offer. Do you know if Arnulf moved it on to >>some other resource? >> >> -- Massimo >> >> >> On 01/27/2011 02:31 PM, Harald Oehlmann wrote: >>> >>> Maybe ATWF, the port of the zend framework to Rivet by Arnulf Wiedemann >>> may be interesting? >>> See: >>> http://wiki.tcl.tk/25821 >>> or the presentation at TC2010. >>> >>> Harald >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
