From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-11-03T05:00:46+09:00
Subject: Re: amrita/cgikit/iowa/others?

On Friday 01 November 2002 11:56 am, ahoward wrote:
> rubyists-
>
> what are peoples opinions on these projects?  has anyone used all three? 
> how would you rate them?  other contenders?
>
> -a

I have used two of the three- amrita and iowa.

I am currently using amrita for all of my website projects, including work for 
a high-interest client.  I find amrita templating extremely pure and 
flexible; I used eruby for quite some time and found it (or any 'embedded' 
code) extremely difficult to manage in large projects.  Amrita templates are 
ridiculously short, and features like expand_attr and ExpandByMember mean 
that you can turn Ruby objects into webpage content with little or no 
translation.  Also note that amrita has an interface to cgikit; although I 
haven't used it, perhaps you'd be interested in it.

I tried out iowa in the past- and really love the idea; most recent 
development (Seaside) has done in Squeak/Smalltalk, however.  I'm not sure of 
the stability/utility of iowa (or when an updated version will return to 
Ruby), but I was very impressed w/ the initial release.  Definitely something 
to watch for- contact Avi Bryant for more information; I know he's been 
looking for feedback on the project.

Best of Luck!-
~ Bruce