Yudionrails

Right, you love Ruby, you love the syntax and rake.

But for some reason you hate hate being forced to MVC structure and want to apply different patterns or no pattern at all..

Here is a list of off-Rails framework that you can try out: (I read it from the rails-mailing-list)

• Nitro/Og

• Camping

• Ramaze

• Sinatra

• Merb

• NARF

It’s not that they are better than Rails, rather they are more or less connected to Rails and have various personalities. Camping is 4k and has a metaphor of a little white blood cell in the vein of Rails , while merb declares ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic .

If falling in love with Ruby was like seeing some girl from China, then Camping is a girl from BeiJing, and merb is from Shanghai. ( I love them all.. don’t you? )

Anyway, I keep this reference as a list of framworks to myself.

I still remember the sweet time that we had open book finals for a couple of basic computing classes (100 level). As the professor said, as a programmer we all keep a handy book while writing code in order to look up.

For ruby, we got ri, but there is a lot faster and much more intelligent tool called fast-ri. I happen to read it in the textmate changlog today. After a little digging around, here is what I find:

Start by install it with the command:

sudo gem install fastri

Then build index with:

sudo fastri-server -b

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