On 26.01.2009, at 7:57, Guoliang Cao wrote:

> Thank you for your reply. I'm thinking of building a desktop
> application for my favorite game. Merb can probably serve as the
> framework with its ORM & Testing support.


What platforms (OS) do you target, and what are you using for UI?  
MacRuby with HotCocoa
may use say bootloaders from Merb, however, I am sure there is  
everything you can think of
in Cocoa already for app lifecycle and plugins initialization. Same  
with other mature UI frameworks.

I see further extractions from merb beneficial for people who use  
EventMachine and Nanite, because
there is a huge gap between "bare EM" and "full blown background task  
framework" like starlings and worlings of all sorts.

And if what you need is just a hot code swapping and Erlang like  
supervision trees of processes to build a specific EM daemon
or complex nanite worker, there is nothing for you in the Ruby space  
right now.

Actually, probably because both hot code swapping and supervision  
trees are hard to get done "the right way" in Ruby, that it makes
perfect sense to go with Erlang right from the start, and integrate  
with say a Rails app via messaging broker like RabbitMQ ;)
But this is a completely different story.

MK


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