On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Koen Deforche <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Richard,
>
> 2009/1/7 Richard Dale <[email protected]>:
> > I added those lines to the config files, built and installed Wt and
> Wt::Ruby
> > into /usr instead of /usr/local and now it all works, both C++ and Ruby
> with
> > FastCGC! I renamed the hello.rb example hello_ruby.wt and added a line
> for
> > it in the fastcgi.conf file. At the top I put '#!/usr/bin/ruby' and made
> it
> > executable, and changed require 'wt' to require 'wtfcgi'.
> >
> > So that means that as far as Apache2 and FastCGI are concerned a Wt::Ruby
> > application in a '*.wt' file is identical to a Wt C++ one. It should be
> > possible to configure Apache to use '*.rb' files, but maybe it is a good
> > idea to give the top level a different extension to normal ruby scripts
> (or
> > '*.wtrb' or '*.wtruby' perhaps).
> >
> > Getting fastcgi working with Wt::Ruby is really the last major milestone
> > before a first release - I just need to do a few more docs to explain it
> all
> > now.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> I would not worry that much about the extensions: while convenient to
> configure apache2 and FastCGI to automatically handle particular URLs,
> in a production environment you should probably manually map the
> application to a URL that does not expose the technology (for URL
> stability).
>
> We had a look at the ruby examples: although we have no ruby
> experience whatsoever, I was pleasantly surprised by the clarity.
>
> The promising state of Wt::Ruby also a new question: is it
> trivial/possible/hard or virtually impossible to integrate this with
> the active record layer of Ruby on Rails or a similar database layer ?
Yes, it works fine - see the hangman example.
For QtRuby I've included a couple of models based on ActiveRecord, a
Qt::AbstractItemModel for use with Qt::TreeViews and a
Qt::AbstractTableModel on for use with Qt::TableView. So it should be
possible to do much the same for the Wt equivalent models.
There may be other things that we can borrow from Rails too. For instance,
ActiveResource is a way of returning xml derived from a database table, from
the web server that work like ActiveRecord models on the client side. Or
there are quite a few convenience classes (eg extending the Ruby time and
date classes) in ActiveSupport that would work well with Wt::Ruby.
-- Richard
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