[Seaside] OSCON "contest"

James Foster Smalltalk at JGFoster.net
Tue Jul 22 22:46:42 UTC 2008


Hi Conrad,

I agree that the competition is slanted toward Rails--but since it is  
being sponsored by the Portland Ruby Brigade that seems only fair.  
Given the expectations of the hosts and attendees, it seemed  
reasonable to try to bend Seaside into that sort of application. Some  
of Seaside's power is that we can do URL parsing if we need to do so.  
If nothing else, I'd like to avoid an argument about the relative  
merits of RESTful URLs vs URL rewiring--particularly in this crowd. In  
any case, I'll probably save those features for the end and if I run  
out of time I'll fail that part of the test.

James

On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Conrad Taylor wrote:

> Hi James, I would like to wish you the best of luck.  Using Gemstone/ 
> S will allow you to concentrate on other parts of the example  
> because you don't have to deal with RDBMS.  Next, it seems that the  
> competition caters more to Rails and REST if there's a firm  
> requirement in regards to the URL.  Thus, is it really necessary to  
> parse the URL?  For example, this is all the possible options for  
> the search form:
>
> option A:  no input text,  no  selection  Result:  all the items in  
> the list
>
> option B:  input text, no selection  Result:  subset of all the  
> items in the list
>
> option C:  no input text, a selection  Result:  subset of all the  
> items in the list
>
> option D:  input text, a selection  Result:  subset of all the items  
> in the list
>
> Next, here's my translation of the last three bullet points on the  
> contest page:
>
> /receipe/ID  equals the Show link
> /recipes/titles/SUBSTRING or /recipes?titles=SUBSTRING  equals one  
> of the options above (i.e. text input and selector)
> /recipes/course/ID or /recipes?course=ID  equals one of the options  
> above (i.e. text input and selector)
>
> In short, I'm thinking that the URL parsing is irrelevant because  
> you're, for the most part, interacting with the form.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Conrad
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