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[Chicken-users] Pinkeye: the beginnings of a Chicken web app development
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Ed Watkeys |
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[Chicken-users] Pinkeye: the beginnings of a Chicken web app development stack |
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Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:16:10 -0400 |
Hi all,
I've been playing with Ruby on Rails recently. There are a lot of
good ideas rolled up into a handy package. But...
* It's written in Ruby, aka Smalltalk meets Perl.
* The user community -- don't get me started!
* It's not Scheme.
So I've been working on something called Pinkeye. It depends on the
HTTP egg and Meroon. The goal is to develop a rich controller for an
MVC-based web app development framework. I'm less interested in the M
and V of MVC, because I know there are people already working on such
things. The controller is event driven; I believe that good web apps
are inherently event driven, so I'm not very interested in a
continuation-based framework. (I think they're cool: No disrespect is
intended.)
Having gotten all of that out of the way, you can download the egg
and the sample code at the following URL:
http://xmog.com/tag/find/Pinkeye
I've implemented an equivalent of Rails's routes feature. It's
actually cooler, but I haven't documented the yummy features yet.
Here's the example code:
;;; START CODE
(require-extension pinkeye)
(route '("people") '((controller . person) (action . list)))
(route '(controller action) '())
(route '(controller action id) '())
(define-class person Controller ())
(define-generic (do-list (o)))
(define-method (do-list (o person))
(render o "<html><head><title>List people</title></head><body>")
(render o "<p>List all people.</p><ul><li>")
(render o (link-to "Preferred link" (Controller-params o)))
(render o "</li><li>")
(render o (link-to "Search Google" "http://google.com/";))
(render o "</li></ul></body></html>"))
(install-controller-handlers)
((http:make-server 4242) #t)
;;; END CODE
Opinions, patches, scathing insults are all greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ed
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Transmogrify, LLC * <http://xmog.com/>
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