From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T22:45:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby MVC

James Britt wrote:
> poopdeville@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.
> 
> Well,  Nitro is an MVC framework, but a Web MVC framework.  (Nitro is
> quite good for non-MVC as well; it gets out of your way.)
> 
> The M part is Og (Object graph) which generates the database from your
> model code; it's fairly transparent.
> 
> 
> See http://www.nitroproject.com
> 
> You can use Og outside of Nitro.  Since the ORM code is your model code,
> hooking into conventional Ruby MVC-style code should be straightforward.
> 
> 
> 
As an aside, while the concepts of Og are quite exciting, about the only
documentation I've been able to find is a couple of discussions in Hal
Fulton's "The Ruby Way, Second Edition." I've gone to their web site and
they are certainly aware that it needs to be done, but busy users with
problems to solve aren't going to document their stuff for them.

Is there a market for an Og/Nitro book, or is the popularity of Rails so
overwhelming that nobody will take the risk?