Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-18 Thread Matthias Wächter

Am 13.04.2012 17:40, schrieb Jenna Fox:

An A4 piece of paper has a little over 9kb of data storage if storing in
binary at 300dpi


A4 is about 21*30 cm², i.e. 630 cm² or 97.65 sqin. 300 dpi means 90,000 
dpsqin or about 8.788 MdpA4. Without accounting for encoding, 
redundancy, synchronization etc, this is about 1.1 MByte/A4 paper. If 
you count both sides → 2.2 MBytes raw data. :)


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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-14 Thread Dave Everitt

LOL! Good to know, if I ever need to do those things :-)

An A4 piece of paper has a little over 9kb of data storage if  
storing in binary at 300dpi




On the other hand, Camping is already far too big to fit entirely in  
a QR code. It would take as many as TWO QR codes to store camping in  
it's entirety.



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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-14 Thread cdr
rack has a minimal file-server [0]

0. 
https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/6496241b25daa20fd9dd736119dc39bdac54869d/lib/rack/file.rb#L70


ive been usin it on my phone to do the basics, it kind of chokes on 128M 
podcasts as a mediaplayer 
http://repo.or.cz/w/element.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/doc/find.html 


it gets the job done though
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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-13 Thread Jenna Fox
An A4 piece of paper has a little over 9kb of data storage if storing in binary 
at 300dpi  

—
Jenna


On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 1:09 AM, Dave Everitt wrote:

 There's a crucial point here... if 3k (the old 4k) is a 'proof of concept' 
 and a great exercise in programming skill, it isn't something that most users 
 will really worry about. If the 3k limit has to be broken back up to 4 or 
 even 5k to get some added/altered/optional functionality that would help 
 usability for the rest of us, it's not an issue for me - DaveE
  
  3kb is great and all, but it seems kind of dishonest if the framework isn't 
  even really usable without a bunch of other gems and files and stuff. The 
  conflict between 3/4kb and having robust well designed features often seems 
  to haunt this project. Maybe time for a forking? I have next to no interest 
  in 3kb as a real feature.
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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-13 Thread Isak Andersson
I agree, I'd like to see the way Camping works to grow in to something much 
more usable. Perhaps a fork is a good idea because the legacy would remain and 
all. But then in the fork we could deal with things that might be kind of 
annoying at times. And grow it with a steady pace.

If we'd fork camping I think we should still stay as minimalistic as possible. 
Only adding the best things. And work on making it easy to extend.

Cheers!

Isak Andersson

Dave Everitt dever...@innotts.co.uk skrev:

There's a crucial point here... if 3k (the old 4k) is a 'proof of concept' and 
a great exercise in programming skill, it isn't something that most users will 
really worry about. If the 3k limit has to be broken back up to 4 or even 5k to 
get some added/altered/optional functionality that would help usability for the 
rest of us, it's not an issue for me - DaveE


3kb is great and all, but it seems kind of dishonest if the framework isn't 
even really usable without a bunch of other gems and files and stuff. The 
conflict between 3/4kb and having robust well designed features often seems to 
haunt this project. Maybe time for a forking? I have next to no interest in 3kb 
as a real feature.


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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-13 Thread Jenna Fox
On the other hand, Camping is already far too big to fit entirely in a QR code. 
It would take as many as TWO QR codes to store camping in it's entirety.  

—
Jenna


On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 1:40 AM, Jenna Fox wrote:

 An A4 piece of paper has a little over 9kb of data storage if storing in 
 binary at 300dpi  
  
 —
 Jenna
  
  
 On Saturday, 14 April 2012 at 1:09 AM, Dave Everitt wrote:
  
  There's a crucial point here... if 3k (the old 4k) is a 'proof of concept' 
  and a great exercise in programming skill, it isn't something that most 
  users will really worry about. If the 3k limit has to be broken back up to 
  4 or even 5k to get some added/altered/optional functionality that would 
  help usability for the rest of us, it's not an issue for me - DaveE
   
   3kb is great and all, but it seems kind of dishonest if the framework 
   isn't even really usable without a bunch of other gems and files and 
   stuff. The conflict between 3/4kb and having robust well designed 
   features often seems to haunt this project. Maybe time for a forking? I 
   have next to no interest in 3kb as a real feature.
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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-13 Thread Dave Everitt
For me, this also depends on what Magnus - as the main Camper ninja -  
thinks - DaveE


I agree, I'd like to see the way Camping works to grow in to  
something much more usable. Perhaps a fork is a good idea because  
the legacy would remain and all. But then in the fork we could deal  
with things that might be kind of annoying at times. And grow it  
with a steady pace.


If we'd fork camping I think we should still stay as minimalistic as  
possible. Only adding the best things. And work on making it easy to  
extend.


Cheers!

Isak Andersson

Dave Everitt dever...@innotts.co.uk skrev:
There's a crucial point here... if 3k (the old 4k) is a 'proof of  
concept' and a great exercise in programming skill, it isn't  
something that most users will really worry about. If the 3k limit  
has to be broken back up to 4 or even 5k to get some added/altered/ 
optional functionality that would help usability for the rest of us,  
it's not an issue for me - DaveE


3kb is great and all, but it seems kind of dishonest if the  
framework isn't even really usable without a bunch of other gems  
and files and stuff. The conflict between 3/4kb and having robust  
well designed features often seems to haunt this project. Maybe  
time for a forking? I have next to no interest in 3kb as a real  
feature.


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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-12 Thread Jenna Fox
The problem is basically this:  

Sometimes you want to reference static files, and other components of your 
site. I have a Gallery app mounted at http://creativepony.com/gallery/ and it 
causes me all sorts of trouble. Often times to reference static files I end up 
needing to use /../ in URLs inside of views and controllers, which webservers 
surprisingly correctly translate in to the wanted files, most of the time. 
Other times I want to reference other camping apps mounted in the same server 
instance via a rack URLMap.

I know as I say this someone will paste a function I can redefine with some 
boggling ultracompressed camping code inside, where every variable is a letter 
- but I have work arounds which work. The trouble is that hacking about like 
this just isn't fun.

In my opinion Camping needs in it's core static file serving, catchall 
before/after methods for controllers, and I have no idea how, but we need to 
fix the insanity which is the (self / arg) thing being applied to all src and 
href values in markaby templates. It's a great idea and I love it when it 
works, but it's so often a leaky abstraction for me, and when it leaks, there's 
no clear solution!  

—
Jenna


On Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 11:35 PM, Dave Everitt wrote:

 In another post, Jenna said: I have some trouble with Camping's URL  
 mapping system - so much so I'm considering sinatra for my next ruby  
 web project
  
 I just wanted to know what the trouble was, and if/how it might/could/  
 can't be addressed, so started a new thread.
  
 DaveE
  
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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-12 Thread Magnus Holm
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:59, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com wrote:
 The problem is basically this:

 Sometimes you want to reference static files, and other components of your
 site. I have a Gallery app mounted at http://creativepony.com/gallery/ and
 it causes me all sorts of trouble. Often times to reference static files I
 end up needing to use /../ in URLs inside of views and controllers, which
 webservers surprisingly correctly translate in to the wanted files, most of
 the time. Other times I want to reference other camping apps mounted in the
 same server instance via a rack URLMap.

 I know as I say this someone will paste a function I can redefine with some
 boggling ultracompressed camping code inside, where every variable is a
 letter - but I have work arounds which work. The trouble is that hacking
 about like this just isn't fun.

 In my opinion Camping needs in it's core static file serving

bin/camping should serve public/

 , catchall before/after methods for controllers,

module App
  def service(*)
p :before
super
  ensure
p :after
  end
end

 and I have no idea how, but we need to
 fix the insanity which is the (self / arg) thing being applied to all src
 and href values in markaby templates. It's a great idea and I love it when
 it works, but it's so often a leaky abstraction for me, and when it leaks,
 there's no clear solution!

I agree, although I don't have any elegant solutions…
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Re: Camping's URL mapping system

2012-04-12 Thread Jenna Fox
bin/camping is great but it's not usually a good way to deploy an app on a 
server - it tends to be more for development. Putting functionality in to 
bin/camping which belongs in camping core is like wearing a backpack filled 
with hydrogen while having your weight checked. 3kb is great and all, but it 
seems kind of dishonest if the framework isn't even really usable without a 
bunch of other gems and files and stuff. The conflict between 3/4kb and having 
robust well designed features often seems to haunt this project. Maybe time for 
a forking? I have next to no interest in 3kb as a real feature.  

I think we should have a little line you write right in to your app file which 
says where you keep your files. Something like MyApp.files = 'public'. Maybe 
that's the default.

'just redefine service' isn't a good solution no matter how many times you post 
it on this list. I shouldn't need to lookup any references or archaic mailing 
list archives to do something so simple in a new project.

For the local file urls thing, I propose a breaking change (eg: camping 3.0)

the addition of a method named local()

# for now it looks like this:
def local arg
  self / arg
end

and the removal of magic (self / arg)ification of href and src attributes in 
markaby templates.

local() should eventually talk to MyApp.files and the file serving feature so 
they can all work together nicely - all the code for that should be in one 
place, maybe in one class. Using local() adds some interesting opportunities 
too. It'd be really easy to modify local do to other stuff, like load your 
files from a database, or make urls which reference files by their inode number 
instead of their file path, or have it return data uris, or have it generate 
Amazon S3 urls with one time keys in them, or include the file's mtime in the 
url, allowing the server to specify month-long cache durations while apps 
instantly pick up changes, making them feel super responsive.

One more thought - on file serving, I think it'd be nice if the default was 
that local files are served out of /files/ url rather than just being at the 
app's root level. I know this would be controversial: It would be really clear 
to beginners, and if someone writes img(src: 'files/blah.png') camping can 
raise a warning explaining the img(src: local 'blah.png') syntax. It also means 
web servers would need to be explicitly configured to duplicate that behaviour 
at a lower level - a simple quick camping setup would always serve files 
through camping, making debugging easier and applications more reliably 
portable. People who need the performance boost of doing it at the web server 
level can do that - it just wont happen by default. Deployment is one of the 
biggest hassles we face - this may help.  

—
Jenna


On Friday, 13 April 2012 at 12:26 AM, Magnus Holm wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 15:59, Jenna Fox a...@creativepony.com 
 (mailto:a...@creativepony.com) wrote:
  The problem is basically this:
   
  Sometimes you want to reference static files, and other components of your
  site. I have a Gallery app mounted at http://creativepony.com/gallery/ and
  it causes me all sorts of trouble. Often times to reference static files I
  end up needing to use /../ in URLs inside of views and controllers, which
  webservers surprisingly correctly translate in to the wanted files, most of
  the time. Other times I want to reference other camping apps mounted in the
  same server instance via a rack URLMap.
   
  I know as I say this someone will paste a function I can redefine with some
  boggling ultracompressed camping code inside, where every variable is a
  letter - but I have work arounds which work. The trouble is that hacking
  about like this just isn't fun.
   
  In my opinion Camping needs in it's core static file serving
  
 bin/camping should serve public/
  
  , catchall before/after methods for controllers,
  
 module App
 def service(*)
 p :before
 super
 ensure
 p :after
 end
 end
  
  and I have no idea how, but we need to
  fix the insanity which is the (self / arg) thing being applied to all src
  and href values in markaby templates. It's a great idea and I love it when
  it works, but it's so often a leaky abstraction for me, and when it leaks,
  there's no clear solution!
   
  
  
 I agree, although I don't have any elegant solutions…
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