Slides from my talk at RubyConf 08 on Ramaze

1. The Underrated Web Framework

2. underrated: Not given enough recognition for its quality

3. Motivation

5. Getting Started

6. Simple Light Modular

7. sudo gem install ramaze

8. http://github.com/manveru/ramaze

11. Features

12. M V C

13. KISS

15. Modular

16. Only one dependency

17. ORM-agnostic

20. Well Documented

21. Beautiful Code

22. BDD

23. Ruby 1.9

25. IRC Population

26. Basics

27. Controllers

28. MainController maps to '/'

29. BlueController maps to '/blue'

30. ...unless you use map

31. _ .

32. Action methods accept arguments via URL

33. http://localhost:7000/archive? page=2 request[:page] == '2'

34. Errors redirect to error action

35. Routing (String Routers) Ramaze::Route [ '/foo' ] = '/bar' # '/foo' => '/bar'

36. Routing (Regex Routers) Ramaze::Route [ %r!^/(+)txt$! ] = "/text/%d" # '/123.txt' => '/text/123'

37. Routing Ramaze::Route [ 'name of route' ] = lambda { |path, request| '/bar' if path == '/foo' and request[ :bar ] == '1' } (Lambda Routers) # '/foo' => '/foo' # '/foo?bar=1' => '/bar'

38. Testing

39. Views

40. Ezamar Erubis (bundled) (default) (my favorite) (plenty of other choices)

41. inline vs. external

42. START NO YES Run return value of action through templating engine Send to browser External Template Is there an external template?

43. Instance variables set in the action can be accessed in template (just like in Rails)

44. (convention) /view

45. (configuration) view_root 'my_templates'

46. Layouts

47. # apply to all actions except index layout :layout deny_layout :index # apply only to index layout :layout => [ :index ] Layouts

48. Ezamar Very simple reimplementation of the Templating-engine found in Nitro. <?r rubycode ?> == <% rubycode %> #{ rubycode } == <%= rubycode %>

49. Ezamar::Element

50. Ezamar::Element

51. Models

52. That's up to you to figure out...

53. ActiveRecord DataMapper Sequel Og DBI

54. Ramaze::Store

55. Helpers

57. Link Helper R(AdminController, :index) => /admin/index Rs(:index) => /admin/index Rs(:/) => / A('text') => <a href=”/text”>text</a> A('foo/bar') => <a href=”/foo/bar”>foo/bar</a> A('Home', :href => Rs(:/)) => <a href=”/”>Home</a>

58. Aspect Helper Allows you to wrap different Actions on your Controller with code.

59. Extras

62. Deployment thin start --servers 1 --socket /tmp/thin-socket -R start.ru

64. Live Coding Small Blog Example: http://pastie.org/319647

66. RTFC

67. Thank you. Questions?