A Rails like framework for Clojure.
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A Rails like framework for Clojure.
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Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#2Although Clojure is an excellent tool, keep in mind it is still in early development.
It can be used to publish simple websites pretty elegantly, but for now it is relatively "low level"- I would say it still has a ways to go before being "Rails like."
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#3Although Clojure is an excellent tool, keep in mind it is still in early development. It can be used to publish simple websites pretty elegantly, but for now it is relatively "low level"- I would say it still has a ways to go before being "Rails like."
Aside from having access to all the Java web frameworks, Clojure has Compojure and Conjure on the higher level and Ring (equivalent to Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack) for lower level.
I wouldn't discount Clojure as not ready for complicated web applications based on it's young age; Java servlets can be written in Clojure. Not that Java servlets are great, but they are widely used for non-trivial web sites.
Clojure is great at removing the ugliness of some Java APIs, I recall that Compojure is built atop servlets.
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#4All these Rails clones! They think they can just ape Rails' idioms and then they'll have the power of Ruby's metaprogramming at their disposal and -- oh, wait.
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#5All these Rails clones! They think they can just ape Rails' idioms and then they'll have the power of Ruby's metaprogramming at their disposal and -- oh, wait.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#6Conjure seems to be in early dev stage. It'd be a good idea for it to be packaged with bleeding edge of the clojure rt instead of 1.0.
None the less, it looks very promising.
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#7All these Rails clones! They think they can just ape Rails' idioms and then they'll have the power of Ruby's metaprogramming at their disposal and -- oh, wait.
rails is a pretty mature framework these days, and it's got tons of plugins that are actually easy to use. It's a pretty steep road to get something up to those standards. When I need something that has everything already neatly solved and ready for cranking out stuff fast -- I always chose rails.
I'm currently trying to learn clojure and enjoying it immensely. It's a lot like ruby (powerful and fun) but with easier syntax and it's way faster. Looking forward to read through the conjure source.
One thing that bugs me with most of the clojure web frameworks that I have looked at is that they a. use ant instead of maven and b. don't provide a canned method to generate a war file. I don't like the advice "just leave a screen with slime and emacs running on your server". It runs on the JVM for crying out loud -- a little more enterprise is appropriate :)
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#8All these Rails clones! They think they can just ape Rails' idioms and then they'll have the power of Ruby's metaprogramming at their disposal and -- oh, wait.
rails is a pretty mature framework these days, and it's got tons of plugins that are actually easy to use. It's a pretty steep road to get something up to those standards. When I need something that has everything already neatly solved and ready for cranking out stuff fast -- I always chose rails. I'm currently trying to learn clojure and enjoying it immensely. It's a lot like ruby (powerful and fun) but with easier…
This one uses the build tool called "lancet", which is created throughout Stuart Halloway's Programming Clojure.
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#9All these Rails clones! They think they can just ape Rails' idioms and then they'll have the power of Ruby's metaprogramming at their disposal and -- oh, wait.
rails is a pretty mature framework these days, and it's got tons of plugins that are actually easy to use. It's a pretty steep road to get something up to those standards. When I need something that has everything already neatly solved and ready for cranking out stuff fast -- I always chose rails. I'm currently trying to learn clojure and enjoying it immensely. It's a lot like ruby (powerful and fun) but with easier…
"just leave a screen with slime and emacs running on your server"
Another way to do it is just load the swank jar on your server (the server side of slime). In your server startup, include a call to (start-swank). Then you can connect via slime whenever you want using M-x slime-connect, and you don't need emacs + screen to stay running.
I've only learned the JVM as part of learning clojure. What advantages would a .war provide?
Re: A Rails like framework for Clojure.
#10All these Rails clones! They think they can just ape Rails' idioms and then they'll have the power of Ruby's metaprogramming at their disposal and -- oh, wait.
rails is a pretty mature framework these days, and it's got tons of plugins that are actually easy to use. It's a pretty steep road to get something up to those standards. When I need something that has everything already neatly solved and ready for cranking out stuff fast -- I always chose rails. I'm currently trying to learn clojure and enjoying it immensely. It's a lot like ruby (powerful and fun) but with easier…
Out of interest, what's the advantage to being "more enterprise" in this case? Having a webserver with a working REPL seems like a rather useful thing to have.