Rails thoughts from a Cocoon Geek
Sunday, August 14th, 2005I’ve been playing with Rails lately (like many people these days), and I have been fairly impressed… not just with Rails, but Ruby as an “agile” language as well.
There are things that I miss or wish Rails had, such as pipelined views or even better, continuation-based controllers.
The sexy thing is that Ruby has native (!!!!) continuation support, and I am seriously wondering how hard it would be to hack some sort of continuation-helper into Rails. The thought of continuation-based controllers in Rails is making my very excited.
On the flip side of things, there are some neat things that Rails that Cocoon could pick up, such as the database introspection → form deal. However, Cocoon Forms are way more complex, but is also totally decoupled from things like your database.
All in all, I’m pretty impressed with Rails so far, and I think both projects could learn some useful things from each other.
Stuff that spawned this blog entry:
- Continuations on the web (in Ruby!)