Thanks for sharing your ideas. I'll be the first person to admit that ErlyWeb is far from mature and that it's lacking some of the tools that exist from other frameworks, and I'm happy to hear people pointing out real needs that ErlyWeb doesn't currently satisfy -- without constructive criticism improvement will be much slower. The extensions you describe are usually done best when they are developed out of a real need and I hope other developers will contribute some of them as they run into missing features during their app development.
Regarding tutorials/examples, I'm happy to see some members of the community stepping up and trying to contribute in this area, and also asking specific questions about areas that are unclear from just reading the documentation. I hope to add my own contribution in this area but don't expect too much during the next couple of weeks due to holidays. Cheers, Yariv On Dec 20, 2007 10:19 PM, Jon Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This isn't a critic of erlyweb, but rather a laundry list of things > that I need to be able to "easily" do in order to port my app from > Rails to erlyweb. > > 1 - full text search. I have some recent experience with Sphinx > http://www.sphinxsearch.com/. Sphinx is a good match for erlang since > it runs as a nice stand-alone daemon and doesn't require the weight of > installing a Java system like Lucene requires. Rails has good plug- > ins and tutorials for using Sphinx. Erlang / erlyweb has nothing. > > 2 - PayPal or Amazon or Google Payment. An erlang library for _any_ > payment gateway is needed. > > 3 - Current tutorials. The API docs on erlyweb are ok, but we need > real-world tutorials using the latest erlyweb. > > There are lots of little things, like good date and time pretty > printing. Ruby does have tons of libraries. We need to identify the > most needed ones for webapp dev. > > Anything I'm missing? > I'm not trying to create an open ended rant...but if I am to port what > I have in Rails to erlang, I need a few missing parts. > > Jon > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlyweb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlyweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
