From: Stefan Schmiedl Date: 2004-12-11T01:47:25+09:00 Subject: Re: [ADV] Want to Write a Book? On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:58:30 +0900, Michael Neumann wrote: > > Sure, Wee is some steps away from production quality, just because > important parts have to be reworked (Session, Application classes, which > are not in the core ;-)). Nevertheless, those are only a few hundred > lines of code... The fewer, the better! > > BTW, would be nice to hear why you did choose IOWA and not Rails. Simply > because you did not tried it, or for some other reasons... I'm just > curious ;-) errm... mainly gut feeling, I guess. There are some default settings with Rails and its database backend which I don't like. I know that I can override them, but still ... OTOH, Kansas as Iowa's preferred backend (I wonder how that sounds to native speaker from Kansas ...) is both very clever and very small. I have to admit that I haven't followed the frequent announcement on Rails improvements thoroughly, but just from the looks, Iowa seemed easier to setup with it's own Webrick-based HTTP-server and indeed proved to be absolutely no hassle thanks to the efforts of the rpa packagers. Moving things between my development machine and the production server is easy, too, as I just scp a tarball and change the port webrick listens on. I'm growing my pages in a single HTML file until they do what they need. Then I improve code structure until changes in application logic (mostly) won't influence the HTML part any more. Finally I split the ..iwa part off and refactor the code with the existing base. I will repeat this until the project is finished. Back to my gut feeling, which I can now summarize into a single sentence: I think that Iowa makes things simple, but not too simple. > Hope at that time, Wee is in a much better shape. Wee will be, even if we will be not :-) s.