Comments on: Erlang + Yaws vs. Ruby on Rails

By: pedz

pedz — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:34:04 +0000

Have you looked at the JavascriptMCV framework? The Controller, View, Model are (kinda) in the user’s browser. This makes the web site more and more just a data store and it puts as much work as possible in the user’s browser (distributed out to the client) rather than on the server.

I’ve not used it yet but it seems, over time, this will be the way to go.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:09:39 +0000

Yariv, why do you think that mixing HTML and code in ehtml is a good idea? It goes very much against the MVC paradigm. Plus, do you really want to tell me that you like escaping HTML attribute values.

By: Yariv

Yariv — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:44:00 +0000

I think using Mnesia with Rails is like going to a fancy restaurant and ordering a cheeseburger.

By: José Manuel Peña

José Manuel Peña — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:52:48 +0000

Hey Yariv! What if you mix up erlang Mnesia database with ruby on rails thorugh an MQ server as rabbitmq?

You’re not going to take advantage of YAWLS server, but at least you can still using Mnesia. However, this means that you have to do your application asyncrounous friendly.

I think this solution is as scalable as flexible. Gaining all RubyOnRails features.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:01:00 +0000

missing from the discussion is how to configure lighttpd so that it can send requests to yaws… much the way fcgi or scgi would.

By: Mat Schaffer

Mat Schaffer — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:21:40 +0000

You might want to add a link for ‘configure Yaws to serve your applicationâ€™s directory’. You’re the top hit if I google for ‘Yaws configure’ :)

By: a-nonymzen

a-nonymzen — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:16:52 +0000

There was a question from Demius regarding yaws and oracle. wouldn’t it be possible to use odbc? I spotted this url: http://erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5/lib/odbc-2.0.6/doc/html/index.html

By: albertlee

albertlee — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:02:21 +0000

sounds great

By: Yariv

Yariv — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:47:19 +0000

Hi Dennis,

I’m pretty sure Mnesia could handle 3.2GB without too much difficulty. I haven’t deployed large scale backends with Mnesia, though, so I can’t be sure. I suggest you ask on the erlang-questions list.

Porting Ruby’s Feedparser library into Erlang shouldn’t be too hard :)

Yariv

By: dennis

dennis — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:00:28 +0000

Regarding mnesia scaling…if you were to cluster servers, would it scale up nicely with that 3.2GB per server? If so, it might not be bad for a web-based discussion forum…Now if only there were an RSS/Atom library…