From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2005-02-01T11:23:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Nitro + Og 0.8.0

George Moschovitis wrote:
>>I too had a look at Nitro but the dearth of documentation compared to
> 
> 
>>Rails made me focus my newbie efforts in the Rails direction.
> 
> 
> This is sadly true :( I plan to improve the documentation and create a
> Nitro web site, but I am still not ready. Btw, this is a community
> effort, perhaps someone could help me wioth writing tutorials etc. I
> know some people hava managed to get nitro and especially Og up and
> running :)

If and when I get something running I might write something (or at least 
offer an example), but I've run into some avoidable problems right form 
the start.  I've installed 0.8.0 via gems, and it has some examples, but 
  most don't run because they have assorted dependencies.

Blog: Needs a postgres lib
Flash: requires ming/ming
Og: requires flexmock

Out the four included examples, the only one I could get running was 
'tiny', which, at first glance, seems little different than running Erb 
via WEBrick.

Please, if you can, include examples that demo the more interesting 
features of Nitro and Og, and are known to run using only what comes 
with ruby 1.8 and whatever Nitro itself installs.

I can understand that a database lib may have to be installed separately 
(though if there are gems for them that would be sweet), but ideally it 
should be something that works on all platforms and requires no C 
compilation.  (I have to check out postgres-pr now ...)

I know it's time-consuming to write docs and such, but good examples can 
go a long way. I get the sense that Nitro is quite cool, and want to 
give it a shot, and any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

James

P.S.

The Nitro home page has 0.6.0 as the latest version; the link to the 
docs there says 0.3.0