Announcing: Ramastic, a skeleton for Ramaze
This is something I've been working on since slightly before my original call for suggestions a while back. It's not done yet (I'd say it's somewhere around 75% done) but I want to get it out there before I totally lose steam on it. There are a few inline styles I was planning on removing, but haven't gotten around to, so...apologies. If you find it of use, please leave a comment.
And yes, it doesn't look that great. But I'm expecting you to restyle everything anyway and possibly blow away the templates entirely in your instantiation of the skeleton.
Now, without further ado, here are features and screenshots:
Features/requirements
- Built on Bones
- Edge Rack/Innate/Ramaze
- Haml/Sass
- Sequel + sqlite3
- Blueprint CSS
- jQuery, jQuery UI
- OpenID (via RPX)
- RestClient
- Crack
- UUID
- Rack-flash
Screenshots
Repository
Thanks for looking!
Ideas Needed for Mr. Bones skeleton built on Ramaze
If I were to make a skeleton using Mr. Bones that was built on Ramaze, what would people like to see in it? It's for my use first, but the community's use a close second if I can generalize it enough. I was thinking along the lines of openid support, having a decent home page and logged-in-user gateway, appropriate nav-bars, haml+sass, jquery+ui, etc....thoughts? What do you find yourself doing at the beginning of every website project that you'd like to not have to repeat every time you start a project?
Gotcha with Sequel and Association Caching
One thing to remember with Sequel is that it caches associations -- for an hour, by default. Normally this is good -- if I say my_model.my_associated_models twice in one request, I'd like that to be cached. But at least with Ramaze, where you can access a variable that persists between requests (via session, like session[:user]), you have to remember that associations on that session object get cached, too. So what does that mean? That means if you have a user view their posts (with session[:user].posts), and then they go make a post, and then they come back to view their posts again...the new post won't be in the list of posts! So you have two basic options here, that I know of -- either a) manually kill the cache by putting session[:user].refresh on the action that alters the associations of session[:user], or b) put session[:user].refresh in a place that gets executed at the beginning of every request.