From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-05-07T23:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: What is Borges?

On Fri, 7 May 2004 19:58:29 +0900, Dick Davies wrote

> And there's an Iowa (which is also continuation ish , and a cousin 
> of SeaSide) intro at:
> 
> http://beta4.com/iowa/newtutc.html

Iowa doesn't use continuations.  It takes the everything-is-an-object 
approach and operates under a traditional request/response cycle.  It 
features seperation of content from code.  Content is plain old HTML with 
some simple markup additions for controlling the dynamic parts, and code is 
just plain old Ruby.  It can be used for full on applications as well as 
simple dynamic pages as I have created an extension to it that lets one map 
URLs to specific content objects.

I've finally gotten a start to the tutorial for it up:

http://enigo.com/projects/iowa

That whole site is actually implemented under Iowa, BTW.

There's also a rubyforge project for it:

http://rubyforge.com/projects/iowa


Kirk Haines