From: "aemadrid@..." <aemadrid@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T17:30:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby MVC

On Jun 19, 6:15 pm, poopdevi...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I'm working on a data mining application, and MVC seems like the right
> approach.  However, I'm having trouble finding a good MVC framework
> outside of Rails.  I'm not particularly interested in running a web
> server to do data mining.
>
> Even if there isn't a suitable MVC framework, I'd like my models to be
> completely database agnostic.  Is there a library comparable to Perl's
> DBIx::Class?  I do NOT want to have to implement something like that.
> ActiveRecord seems like it might work for my needs, but I'm not sure
> if it's intimately tied to Rails.
>
> Thanks!
> Alex

I don't know of any MVC frameworks in Ruby that are not for Web work
but I can tell you of a really good one: Merb [1]. It is basically a
very lightweight Rails that uses Mongrel as the web server. And even
if you don't end up doing a web front end Merb could work as a REST
API backend to any GUI/Console/whatever frontend. BTW, Merb uses AR
and I even heard of people using DataMapper [2] (or trying to). You
can use any Ruby ORM in Merb or Rails for that matter.

Hope it helps,


Adrian Madrid

[1] http://merb.devjavu.com/
[2] http://rubyforge.org/projects/datamapper