From: khaines@...
Date: 2008-01-04T11:31:03+09:00
Subject: Re: The great Ruby web framework multi-app challenge

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Ben (ducktyped) wrote:

> I've been thinking a lot about multi-app web projects, and how none of
> the Ruby web application frameworks I know offers a clean solution to
> build a site that conveniently integrates multiple apps (e.g. a core
> site and a forum).
>
> Integrating a rails app with beast (a rails forum engine) for example is
> just as cumbersome as integrating a rails app with a php forum engine.
> This shouldn't be like that, when Ruby can offer so much more elegance.
>
> I would like to get some insights from the community and stimulate a
> productive discussion of multi-app capabilities for ruby web frameworks.
> I wrote a longer blog post detailing what I think sucks about current
> multi-app integration (exemplified by my works using rails), and how to
> fix some of it.

(*shrug*)  I do it in IOWA all the time.  Core site.  Forum.  Tools for 
managing site information.  Reports.  Dynamically generated tables. 
Multiple different apps for the customer's customers.  Whatever.


Kirk Haines