From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T22:47:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby MVC

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:45 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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?

The nitro/og mailing list and irc channel are quite active and
responsive with regard to questions.