[Seaside] Seaside & Ruby Rails Compared

[Chad Nantais]

Thanks for your help, David.

1. I should have mentioned that I am also open to using PostgreSQL. 
Is there a certain driver I should use for this, that works best with
Seaside?

Chad

On 9/6/05, David Shaffer <cdshaffer at acm.org> wrote:
> Chad Nantais wrote:
> 
> >I have been using Ruby on Rails and was wondering if Seaside can do
> >some of the things RoR can do (without much development on my part).
> >If it can do these things easily, I would consider moving to Seaside
> >because I like the Squeak environment and Smalltalk language.
> >
> >Can Seaside perform:
> >
> >1. Functional testing
> >
> >
> Yes, SeasideTesing and the (soon to be released) Selenium driver for
> Squeak make a pretty comprehensive testing suite.
> 
> >2. Unit testing
> >
> >
> See above...division seems to be SeasideTesting for unit testing,
> Squelenium for functional testing
> 
> >3. User authentication
> >
> >
> Yep.  Basic HTTP authentication is trivial.
> 
> >4. MySQL connectivity
> >
> >
> 
> Don't know.  Probably.  I've used it with:
>     - posgresql and
>     - GOODS (object-oriented database)
> 
> I can't give you insight versus RoR but I can say Seaside has the most
> extensible and reusable component model that I've found.  The
> continuations are a bonus and altogether make writing web apps feel a
> lot like writing GUI apps only easier :-)  Callbacks, nested components etc.
> 
> Welcome and come back with more questions!
> 
> David
> 
> 


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Chad Nantais
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