[ANN] Nitro 0.5.0

[George Moschovitis]

Hello everyone,

a new version of Nitro was just released.

Homepage: http://www.navel.gr/nitro
Download: http://www.rubyforge.com/projects/nitro

The highlight of this release is the stand-alone Og
distribution (easily the most requested feature )

here are the release notes:

Many new features:

* Stand-alone Og distribution.
* Scaffolding.
* Og RDBMS index support (works again).
* improved render/dispatcher.
* REST/XML dspatcher.
* RssBuilder.
* Improved BLOG example.
* Many fixes.

some words about Nitro:

Nitro is an efficient, yet simple engine for developing professional
Web
Applications using the Ruby language. Nitro aims to provide a robust
infrastructure for scalable web applications that can be distributed
over a server cluster. However, Nitro can also power simple web
applications for deployment on intranets or even personal computers.
Nitro integrates the powerful Og Object-Relational mapping library.

Suggestions, ideas, bug reports are welcome!
have fun,
George Moschovitis

 

[George Moschovitis]

* REST/XML dspatcher.

Btw the REST/XML dispatcher is especially intersting. With zero lines
of code you can have a REST interface to your site. Or create RSS
syndication again with zero lines of code (using the REST dispatcher,
Scaffolding and the RssBuilder). Have a look at the blog example.

Basically, when you have a url like this:

http://www.mysite.com/blog/list_entries

you can trigger the REST dispatcher with a simple change:

http://www.mysite.com/rest/blog/list_entries

and get XML (for example RSS) output.


have fun!
George Moschovitis