Yup, I was thinking Merb from the first time you started, erm, railing against rails :~). Also, and this is pure speculation at this point, but what if you could use Hobo with a really lightweight framework like SInatra?
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:41 PM, ara_vartanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. Just to be clear, the problem to me is not > Hobo. The problem is Rails. There is simply no reason that each new > version should break the whole ecosystem of software around it. This > makes everything ridiculously brittle. If we have *one* plugin that > has decided not yet to support an upgrade, we're in a world of pain. > It's all because Rails sticks to no interfaces. Whereas other > platforms have interfaces, accessibility restrictions, and callbacks, > Ruby and Rails have alias_method_chain and the send hack. > > I really think DRYML is something brilliant that gets at what a lot of > people have wanted for a long time -- a templating language that is > both declarative, extensible, and almost object oriented in a kind of > way. I've heard talk of separating it from Rails so that it might be > used with something like Merb. Ultimately, down the line, I think > DRYML is so good that it would be worth thinking about porting it over > to different platforms even. > > On Dec 4, 9:12 am, Tom Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we made a decision to delay moving to Rails 2.2 for as long as we > > > could. > > > > OK looks like a Rails 2.2 upgrade can be a bit more work than I'd > > realised. I've upgraded several apps very easily though. The only > > problems I've hit (so far!) were in Hobo itself, and those are fixed > > now. > > > > Unfortunately this kind of thing is just part of the challenge of > > using a big project like Hobo before 1.0. At one point we insisted on > > edge Rails - that really annoyed a few people :) Using lots of other > > plugins will also exaggerate these issues. > > > > One thing you could do is fork Hobo and keep a Rails 2.1 branch, > > cherry-picking in any fixes you need that come later. > > > > Tom > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" 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/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
