From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T00:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the best non-rails web/ruby development environm

Ilan Berci wrote:
> Edward wrote:
> 
>>How do most of your develop non-rails ruby webs locally?
>>(I'll get into rails later, I want to get the basics of Ruby down
>>first.)
>>Is debugging possible?
> 
> 
> I believe that you may be interested in http://www.nitroproject.org/
> and why's http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/campingAMicroframework.html.
> Both of which are "lighter" than rails and may be what you are looking
> for.
> 
> Nitro offers a very fast startup and has cool videos that I found very
> impr*ssive.
> 
> why's camping framework is all there on one page and is quite the
> learning experience if you parse through it.  It is one of the best
> examples on how Ruby can express so much out of so little (and the site
> is worth the visit just for the jokes alone)..
> 
> Hope this helps

Also look for IOWA and Cerise.

http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/tutorial/what_is_it.html
http://cerise.rubyforge.org/

-- 
James Britt

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is 
not worth knowing."
   - A. Perlis