I'm very happy to see elryweb as mature as it is. Some refreshed tutorials on the soon to be released v0.7, may be just what is needed. If I end up writing any of the "missing pieces", I'll be sure to publish them. thanks, Jon
On Dec 21, 3:05 pm, "Yariv Sadan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
