From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T01:27:15+09:00
Subject: Re: when are web frameworks needed?

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:07 PM, goodieboy <goodieBoy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As an example, I have a simple ecommerce site I need to develop. I'm
> thinking of using Passenger, DataMapper, ActiveMerchant and Erb. Would
> it be so terrible to whip up my own lightweight router and controller
> scheme for something like this? I can't imagine the code to support
> the app would be more than a few hundred lines?

Mostly that it's a well-understood, rather routine problem that you're
solving again and again for little benefit. Why not just drop in
Sinatra or one of the other lightweight frameworks and take advantage
of the accumulated design and debugging effort.

martin