Re: Lua MVC web framework?

[Andre Carregal <carregal@...>]

grab mail wrote:
> .lp is cool but it's not a framework. it's like going back to the good ol'
> pre-framework PHP scripting style days (which i remember to be hell for
> maintainance)

True, that's why we are moving up with Orbit.

> I like Rails because
> - their methods are easy to understand
> - Love their activerecord migration feature
> - Love the javascript code generator (it would be lovely to generate js
> scripts with lua, like google's GWT)

That is reachable, but not this year... We have a prototype in the 
direction of ActiveRecord (the ORM part) and another in the direction of 
a template engine that is intentionally not Turing complete. :o)

> I see that CGIlua is copying Ruby's lang? with the <% %> tags and the
> CGILua:puts() method. So i see that Orb should be similar to Rails?

Orbit is just the MVC framework. Rails is a complete (and amazing) 
solution for web development and offers a lot more than just the MVC 
abstraction.

> pity my lua knowledge is limited. else, i would attempt at porting a mix of
> rails/solar php to lua.

Maybe you could join the Kepler Project list and help us make Orbit 
better. I'm afraid the Lua list is not the best place for a potentially 
long off topic thread like MVC for Lua.

André