From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-07-17T08:26:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17949] Re: FastCGI for Ruby?

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Eli Green wrote:

> Also, I was wondering about ruby's current status as far as replacing something
> like WebObjects. Basically, it needs a competent web application server and
> something that can copy the functions of EOF (Enterprise Objects Framework) -- a
> framework for mapping relational databases to objects. (Similar to perl's
> Tangram).

I've been working on exactly this. IOWA maps pretty closely to
WebObjects; it's a prototype and poorly documented, but people have had
some success with it and if you were interested in helping out I'd be
happy to flesh it out more (a FastCGI interface is one thing that would be
nice, but does mod_fcgi implement the multithreaded protocol yet?). The
EOF side is definitely lacking; I took a very quick run at it once but
we'd need to do some serious work to get it into usable shape.

IOWA is at http://beta4.com/iowa, and some initial EOF code is at
http://beta4.com/kansas.tgz - let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Avi