From: George  Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Date: 2005-01-15T15:56:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Proliferation of web frameworks

I think you are overreacting.

At the moment there is only one big and widely used framework for Ruby,
ie Rails. And Rails does not reinvent the wheel. Instead it reuses many
existing libraries. From what I know, only two other frameworks are
actively maintained at the moment: Nitro and Wee.

Nitro reuses many design concepts from Rails and also reuses existing
libraries, for example the Breakpointer, blankslate, extensions,
dev-utils.

Whats more, the creator of Wee, provides TONS of ideas, suggestions and
patches for Og which is part of Nitro. I also plan to give ideas,
suggestions and even patches for further Wee development. As Michael
correctly stated, Wee is useful for web applications, Nitro will be
used for bigger web sites, possibly distributed over many servers, with
thousands of concurrent users.

In the future, I could try to make Og a drop-in replacement for
ActiveRecord, thus making it compatible with Rails.  So, I think, there
is a lot of cooperation in the ever-so-friendly Ruby community, which
is a good thing.

If you dont have the time to evaluate multiple web frameworks just stay
with Rails :) If you have some time, please try Nitro, I would like to
hear some suggestions. As Nitro is not yet widely used, it is easier to
incorporate new ideas and improve the API than in Rails, so comments
and suggestions are more useful.

regards,
George