Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster (YC S09)

http://www.infoq.com/articles/flightcaster-clojure-rails

by zemariamm • 17 years ago

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patio11• 17 years ago

I think a lot of people could benefit from Rails as, essentially, a presentation layer for a larger system. I sort of sleepwalked into it in my own project: my Rails site is just the presentation layer for long-running Prawn-based PDF export jobs.

That could just as easily be the sort of batch processing Big Freaking Java Enterprise stuff we do at the day job -- we'd spend 1/10th the time on writing screens and action classes and still be able to use that ridiculously overpriced report generation library we're married to.

Wait a second... that needs to get brought up on Monday at work.

acangiano• 17 years ago

A spectacular combo is JRuby on Rails for the "front-end" and Scala for the heavy lifting.

tulsidas• 17 years ago

interacting only through db?

catch233• 17 years ago

We're on a JVM platform as well. Since there aren't many good web frameworks for Java, Rails makes a good fit here.

zmimon2• 17 years ago

What about grails? It seems to me that being on the JVM would make that a very attractive choice. I'm strongly considering the grails+groovy / Scala combo for my next project. I'm just waiting for Scala 2.8 to finalize since I need it for it's full annotation support.

mrduncan• 17 years ago

Here is a previous discussion on FlightCaster's architecture in case anyone missed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772808

peregrine• 17 years ago

My question is why wouldn't someone want to use something like Compojure so they can use Clojure exclusively?

zach• 17 years ago

And lose all the Rails infrastructure, plugins and functionality? After all, Rails is actually a collection of technologies and perfectly usable as a presentation layer alone. And hey, once we've put Lisp on the JVM, why not Clojure on Rails?

caffeine• 17 years ago

Compojure's not really ready for prime-time yet. Try writing an app in it, you'll see what I mean ... once in a while, a baby tooth just falls out.

Clojure and Rails - the Secret Sauce Behind FlightCaster (YC S09)

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