Comments on: The Perfect Web Framework

By: Shaun

Shaun — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:04:22 +0000

I’m late to this party but thought I’d
weigh in with Sinatra and CherryPy.
I have much the same history and preference
that you describe and found these stay out
of my way while still doing what I want.

By: John Bubriski

John Bubriski — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:29:04 +0000

I think the problem is that you can’t really “mess around” with frameworks, as it gets you nowhere. What you really need to do is LEARN a framework. The purpose of a framework is to make the common things very easy to do, provide stability etc. Unless you commit to a framework and learn it and use it, I don’t think you can really evaluate how useful it is. Frameworks should also be extremely intuitive so you don’t waste time trying to figure out how “they” did it, and should NOT get in your by keeping underlying functionality available (for the most part).

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:23:06 +0000

That’s almost identical to RACK. +1

By: nightshade427@yahoo.com

nightshade427@yahoo.com — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:08:50 +0000

@Slava “Sinatra (Ruby web framework) rules!” +1

By: Tobin Harris

Tobin Harris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:32:58 +0000

+1 for Sinatra. It’s a tiny tiny bit more involved than the story above, but beautiful nonetheless.

By: Ryan Riley

Ryan Riley — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:10:05 +0000

I agree with Ben; that looks like Rack. OpenRasta is pretty close, as well, and handles expected HTTP response codes very well.

By: James Avery

James Avery — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:55:07 +0000

You should check out WebMachine (an erlang web framework that is just about that simple)

By: Slava

Slava — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:35:04 +0000

Sinatra (Ruby web framework) rules!

By: Ben Lovell

Ben Lovell — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:51:15 +0000

Ha! You need to look at rack:

http://rack.rubyforge.org/

Almost exactly what you described :)

By: Simone

Simone — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:10:28 +0000

Looks a lot like CGI back in the ’90s :)
Just more testable