[Seaside] Look over to Rails and Struts

[Avi Bryant]

On Apr 5, 2005 6:32 PM, Marco Paga <marco.paga at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I just had a short view into Rails, a webframework built in ruby.
> Something I would really recognise as a big advantage is the way you
> get in contact with a database. You just edit a config file and the OR
> Mapper starts working.

ActiveRecord (the Rails O/R framework) certainly does get a lot of
attention, I think because of a less-is-more philosophy: it's not
nearly as flexible as something like GLORP, but if it does what you
need it's much simpler to use.  I've done sketches of similar
lightweight O/R frameworks in the past, but never had a compelling
enough need for one to actually finish or release them.

> Is there something similar planned for seaside?

It would be very easy to do an ActiveRecord port to Squeak, and
probably a good thing to have.  I don't have any plans to do it myself
(and nobody has offered to hire me to... ;), but I'd certainly welcome
it if someone else did, and help with whatever Seaside integration
work was needed.

Avi