From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-11-19T10:33:26+09:00
Subject: Re: web development w/ ruby

Cam wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/18/05, Ed Howland <ed.howland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I'd point out that RoR does not need a DB. You can make your own
>>Models, or just put all your logic inside controllers. I've done that
>>for a couple of one-off projects. Works fine.
> 
> 
> cool, i haven't paid a whole lot of attention to rails (like i had
> said i hadn't been doing any sort of web-development before), but i
> was under the impression that it was just for stream-lining
> webapps/database/lard.  I'll have to give it another look,


You might also want to look at Nitro and IOWA

http://www.nitrohq.com

http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/tutorial/what_is_it.html


I've found Nitro much simpler to work with than Rails in many cases, 
particularly when starting off with no database and then, if needed, 
easing into the use of one.  It's very natural.



James

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