From: khaines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-01-07T04:33:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Re: [BOUNTY] Shopping cart ...

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:03:32 +0900, Alan Garrison wrote

> Does a Ruby based Horde-ish architecture all ready exist?  I'd 
> imagine that if something like this were developed, writing drop-in 
> apps may be a better approach for things like shopping carts as 
> opposed to writing ad hoc apps that just handle the basics but have 
> similar needs 
> (authentication, session handling, templates, etc).

My familiarity with Horde is not much deeper than what you just summarized, 
so I'm not going to draw any direct comparisons.

However, IOWA provides _some_ of the things that you mention.  If I want to 
add, say, a modified blogging app for tracking project status to a site that 
is already running under IOWA, all I do is drop it into a subdirectory and 
twiddle a config file, and voila!  It is accessible.


Kirk Haines