I'd definitely be interested in seeing any work you do with this. Having it up on the wiki would be nice too.
I'm still trying to figure out deployment with camping 1.5. I've experimented with 1.9.316 and rack but have yet to get an app to work with that. The same with Picnic. Dave On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Dave Everitt<dever...@innotts.co.uk> wrote: > I'm planning to use Camping to teach the basics of frameworks, and encourage > new arrivals from web design to take up Ruby instead of (say) defaulting to > PHP. To do this, I need a foolproof set of instructions for both the > technicians (who have to install on all the studio machines) and the > students. > > To go further, I'd like to get an opinion on the following: > > 1. SQLIte/ActiveRecord > I've had some trouble getting Camping to write to an SQLite database as it > should (post 'sqlite3 connection problem' has the details). To prepare > instructions, I need to understand exactly why this is happening (in case it > happens on a student's machine), so I'll persist and get it solved, somehow. > > 2. Obtaining the definitive current stable version > What's the consensus on the definitive stable version? And where is it? The > bleeding edge download from http://gems.judofyr.net/ is at 1.9.316, yet > Picnic includes Camping 2.0 (which I thought didn't exist yet), but if I > 'gem update' my 1.5 version, Camping remains at 1.5? I hope you can > understand the confusion (on behalf of my future students) here. > > 3. Rack > At which version (see [2]) did Camping start depending on Rack (as stated > at: http://github.com/why/camping/tree/master)? Just out of interest, is it > still possible to run a Camping app without it? > > 4. Comparing servers > Is there any consensus on running Camping with: Apache, Mongrel, fast_cgi, > plain old CGI, etc.? Which is the most efficient, future-proof, > quickest/easiest to set up, and is there any information that charts the > methods and differences? In a production environment, the URLs are obviously > an issue here, so some mod_rewrite (or -like) examples would also be good. > > With all this I also want to lower the entry bar to Camping for new users by > attempting some nice, simple documentation just to get people going, which > is the thing I've been struggling to do myself. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > -- Dave _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
