[clug] Higher level CGI frameworks?

[Ahmed El Zein]

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but there is:

Ruby On Rails [http://www.rubyonrails.org/] for ruby,
Catalyst [http://www.catalystframework.org/] for perl,
and Turbogears [http://www.turbogears.org/] for python.

I believe that all these can run as fcgi processes. There are other
solutions for those languages, google for more. 

Ahmed


Michael James <clug2 at james.st> wrote on 24 Apr 2007, 07:32 PM:
Subject: [clug] Higher level CGI frameworks?
>On a LAMPerl, LAMPython, or LAMJava platform
> what is a better web app development framework than CGI?
>
>In the bad old days, I wrote simple web apps in Perl CGI.
>Hand hacked everything from the ground up.
>Tied my mind in knots working out the flow,
> that page POSTs to this page,
> this page also does the next confirmation screen,
> any errors redirect to the other page, ...
>Thought and wrote in HTML and Perl simultaneously
> embedding HTML in Perl print statements,
> hating the layout of polyglot code on the page.
>Invented a half-arsed template system, replacing %DATA% strings.
>Used an IDE consisting of 3 editor windows,
> and a browser with the refresh button still visible.
>Did test printouts to STDERR running into a tail on Apache's error_log.
>
>Ended up with some ugly un-maintainable mazes that still haunt me.
>
>
>So what's better?
>What offers more structure through the pages,
> connections to databases,
> auto-generation of the red error messages
> when data doesn't pass validation,
> useful error messages when it breaks,
> the chance to re-use its components,
> whole-of-site style and function(s).
> 
>
>I'm not learning PHP; "Trainer wheels without the bicycle" doesn't appeal.
>
>Mason sounded good, except I couldn't get it installed on SLES9
> and scope among the fragments turned into a nightmare.
>I felt like the trainer whose elephant wouldn't stand up.
>In the beginning I'd stride in issuing commands,
> by the end of the day I'd be morosely poking it with a stick, hoping...
>
>Django sounds cool, comes with a set of really good tutorials
>But they peter out, and it's all magic-in-python.
>I'd like to learn python, wanted higher level...
>Well this is so high-level that it can extrapolate
> your dream website from a fragment of fairy-cake.
>But what do you have to do to the fragment to make it write the file I
>need?
>
>Java servelets, that's what the boss wants.
>Is it just back to the horror of CGI in an unfamiliar language?
>
>Any comments, suggestions more constructive than Holy Writ?
>
>michaelj
>
>PS: The verbosity of java is a turn-off.
>-- 
>There is no perl one line hack
> that a page of java won't do more elegantly.
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