RE: Lua on, er, Lails?

["Andre Carregal" <carregal@...>]

From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br [mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br]On Behalf Of Jens Alfke
 

 I'm curious whether anyone is thinking about a high-level Rails-like framework for Lua, to run atop Kepler? There are already quite a few Rails knockoffs sprouting up for other languages, such as Cake for PHP, and Lua's flexibility and high level of introspection would make it well-suited, I think. (Plus, Lua is considerably faster/smaller than Ruby, right?)

 

Well, there is Orbit, a MVC framework for Kepler that is somewhat like Rails. The plan is to integrate it with Saci, a LuaSQL based ORM, (equivalent to ActiveRecord) and use it as a higher abstraction over CGILua.

 

But this is all still preliminary work (both Orbit and Saci are in pre-alpha) and our focus now is on platform documentation and the new release of Kepler and its current set of libraries.

 

André Carregal