Re: Speed Issues

alex black wrote:
> I will not be leading this project as a php web application platform,
> since I think php is a dead language.... but I'd love to see our tools get
> to rails as gems ;)

While RoR is fking cool in many ways.  In my opinion, it is not _quite_ 
the holy of grails for building large websites.  This is due largely to 
the design of MVC, and lack of a "nested application" concept.

For instance, (and I'm speaking largely out of ignorance).. I cannot 
find an elegant way to have "site-wide" templates (header/footer) in an 
MVC implementation without having to explicitly link to them from each 
application's template.  There is no "top node" level in which this can 
be done in RoR, or in any MVC design I've seen.

This effectively means that you're RoR apps are being developed specific 
to the website's presentation.  Doing this means that applications are 
not immediately portable from site to site.  You would need to alter the 
applications templates to adapt to another site's header and footer.

The importance of this is argueable, but it does hender the ability to 
create a vast library of portable applications as we we're trying to do 
with nodes & vortex.


jason.

PS. Hi. =)
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