Re: [ANN] Lightrail 0.99.0: minimalist Rails 3 stack for JSON APIs

Wonderful, this seems to fit my needs very well!! Thank you for this gem!

saji

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Tony Arcieri <[e-mail]> wrot=
e:
> One of the great advancements of Rails 3 brought to the table was enough
> modularity to let you build custom Rails stacks tuned to specific needs.=
=C2=A0Out
> of the box Rails is tuned to be as inclusive as possible, bringing you as
> many features as it possibly can. It's modular enough you can remove what
> you want if you don't need it, but by default ships with everything on.
>
> This inclusiveness lead to a backlash of minimalist frameworks, most nota=
bly
> Sinatra. Sinatra tried to provide as little as possible while still being
> useful, and at the same time removed much of the Rails ceremony from the =
DSL
> it used for rendering responses.
>
> Thanks to Rails 3, the framework is now modular enough you can boot a
> barebones version of it from a single file:
>
> https://gist.github.com/1942658
>
> Lightrail ships a Rails 3 barebones stack, but with some added niceties f=
or
> apps that provide JSON APIs:
>
> https://github.com/lightness/lightrail
>
> It's minimalist Rails 3 with enough Sinatraisms baked in I hope it can wi=
n
> over some of those people who think Rails is too bloated and use Sinatra
> instead. That's not to say Sinatra is bad, but I have seen apps built on
> Sintra which have outgrown it, and for them, I think a Rails-based stack
> would be a better choice.
>
> For those of you who hated Rails 3's stack traces, Lightrail ships with
> minimal middleware and is tuned to eliminate many of the frustrations whi=
ch
> give the impression Rails is a big bloated framework.
>
> Lightrail is originally derived from the Rails 3 stack used for applicati=
ons
> with client-heavy SproutCore front-ends at Strobe (http://strobecorp.com)=
.
> Its principal authors are=C2=A0Jos=C3=A9 Valim=C2=A0and=C2=A0Carl Lerche.
>
> --
>
> Install the lightrail gem:
>
> gem install lightrail
>
> Like Rails, installing the lightrail gem will install a command line util=
ity
> called 'lightrail'. This command is in fact identical to the 'rails'
> command, but tweaked for Lightrail defaults instead of Rails defaults.
>
> You can use 'lightrail' to create a new application skeleton just like
> Rails:
>
> lightrail new myapp
>
> The skeleton application that Lightrail generates is identical to a stand=
ard
> Rails application, with only these changes:
>
> Gemfile pulls in lightrail instead of rails
> application.rb pulls in lightrail instead of rails
> ApplicationController descends from Lightrail::ActionController::Metal
> instead of ActionController::Base. ActionView is not used or installed.
>
> Once you've created your application, run:
>
> lightrail server
>
> to launch a web server in the development environment (just like Rails!)
>
> You can convert an existing Rails 3 application to a Lightrail applicatio=
n
> by retrofitting the changes mentioned above.
>
> --
> Tony Arcieri
>



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Saji N Hameed,
ARC-ENV, Center for Advanced Information Science and Technology,
University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi,
Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima 965-8580,
Japan

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