[Rt-devel] Re: Jifty 0.51225

[Joby Walker]

So is there a timetable to port RT to Jifty?

jbw

Jesse Vincent wrote:
> It gives me great pleasure to announce the first release of Jifty, a
> new web application framework in Perl.  Jifty is designed to help you
> write clean, maintainable applications quickly and easily. Actually,
> it was designed to help _us_ write clean, maintainable applications
> quickly and easily. We very much hope that you'll find it as great to
> work with as we do.
> 
> As we built Jifty, we talked to many, many folks about what they wanted in
> a web framework. They told us that they didn't want to mess with database
> schema.  They wanted AJAX to "just work." They wanted their code to be
> clean and simple.  They wanted the power of CPAN. They wanted infinite
> choices about the way their apps were built. They wanted "one good way"
> to make applications built into the framework.  From what we could tell,
> they were basically all saying the same thing: "I want a pony."
> 
> In addition to being a pleasure to work with, Jifty is a
> veritable treasure trove of buzzwords.  At its core is Jifty::DBI,
> an object-relational mapping system with a clean, declarative
> syntax. Jifty::DBI is based on DBIx::SearchBuilder, which has powered
> uncountable thousands of RT instances for the better part of a decade
> but adds a few new twists. Jifty::DBI handles _all_ your SQL. No INSERTs,
> no DELETES, no SELECTs, no CREATE TABLEs and no ALTER TABLEs. Jifty will
> set up your database schema when you first deploy your application and
> upgrade it as you update your model classes.
> 
> Jifty's core web framework follows the Model-View-Controller pattern
> -- with a twist. Rather than the standard URL-based controller, Jifty
> uses a new argument-name-based dispatcher that makes Web Services and
> AJAX/AHAH easy.
> 
> As one might expect, these days, Jifty comes with built in AJAX support,
> based on Prototype.js and Script.aculo.us.  It only takes a few seconds
> to set your pages up with rich dynamic interaction...that seamlessly
> degrades in non-AJAX browsers.
> 
> Jifty's application-level continuations make it a breeze to let a user
> pop off to a login page or a wizard and get back to where they came from,
> complete with the results of the their excursion.
> 
> Out of the box, every new Jifty application comes with a built in
> documentation browser, database administration interface. And a pony.
> 
> Find out more about Jifty at http://jifty.org.  Download a copy from
> CPAN today. Join us on #jifty on irc.freenode.net.
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