Hi,

In the last weeks I tried to make a draft for a mvc library. I tried to take advantage of templates, uda and ctfe to make the interaction with the database and the routing easier. There is still a lot of work to do for making it ready to work in production... but anyway.. what do you think?

https://github.com/gedaiu/crate.d

Thanks,
Bogdan

On 28/11/2014 8:16 a.m., gedaiu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the last weeks I tried to make a draft for a mvc library. I tried to
> take advantage of templates, uda and ctfe to make the interaction with
> the database and the routing easier. There is still a lot of work to do
> for making it ready to work in production... but anyway.. what do you
> think?
>
> https://github.com/gedaiu/crate.d
>
> Thanks,
> Bogdan

I had a look at it, it looks very simplistic. But I assume it would be rather fast for linking. Which is a good thing.

I would recommend if you haven't already to look at my projects, Cmsed[0], livereload[1], skeleton[2] and dvorm[3].
I started dvorm end of last year and is fairly complete at this point.
Cmsed is due for rewrite (got most of the code done if you are interested) but I'm waiting on a PR for dmd before doing more.

[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/Cmsed
[1] https://github.com/rikkimax/livereload
[2] https://github.com/rikkimax/skeleton
[3] https://github.com/rikkimax/dvorm

On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 19:16:24 UTC, gedaiu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the last weeks I tried to make a draft for a mvc library. I tried to take advantage of templates, uda and ctfe to make the interaction with the database and the routing easier. There is still a lot of work to do for making it ready to work in production... but anyway.. what do you think?
>
> https://github.com/gedaiu/crate.d
>
> Thanks,
> Bogdan

Hi,

I noticed you had your own templating library to parse the .dh files, so I thought I'd mention my project Temple which does something similar: https://github.com/dymk/temple
It's perhaps a bit more feature complete, and can handle stuff like capturing blocks of code, render to arbitrary output ranges, etc. That being said, your solution is very nice; it's amazing what you can do in so few lines of code in D :)

MongoModel in the model part of crate.d is interesting, and I'm glad to see there's a more structured way of interacting with MongoDB than just poking at untyped objects. I think D is still missing a really good ORM (Rikki's dvorm is a start), but there's nothing out there that conforms to the "activerecord" pattern as far as I can tell.

On 30/11/2014 1:20 p.m., Dylan Knutson wrote:
> MongoModel in the model part of crate.d is interesting, and I'm glad to
> see there's a more structured way of interacting with MongoDB than just
> poking at untyped objects. I think D is still missing a really good ORM
> (Rikki's dvorm is a start), but there's nothing out there that conforms
> to the "activerecord" pattern as far as I can tell.

There is hibernated around, but something about it always made me go yeah no. But so does actual hibernate so meh.

Dvorm was meant as a very simple interface completely abstracted out from the database engine itself :) It does this very well, even can send/receive emails!

I would like to eventually build another library that is backwards compatible with Dvorm but with a lot more features. And far less database engine abstracted away.
Mostly so things like Cmsed don't need a full rewrite.
But alas, I'm trying to improve the situation for gui's atm.

On Sunday, 30 November 2014 at 00:20:57 UTC, Dylan Knutson wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 November 2014 at 19:16:24 UTC, gedaiu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the last weeks I tried to make a draft for a mvc library. I tried to take advantage of templates, uda and ctfe to make the interaction with the database and the routing easier. There is still a lot of work to do for making it ready to work in production... but anyway.. what do you think?
>>
>> https://github.com/gedaiu/crate.d
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bogdan
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed you had your own templating library to parse the .dh files, so I thought I'd mention my project Temple which does something similar: https://github.com/dymk/temple
> It's perhaps a bit more feature complete, and can handle stuff like capturing blocks of code, render to arbitrary output ranges, etc. That being said, your solution is very nice; it's amazing what you can do in so few lines of code in D :)
>
> MongoModel in the model part of crate.d is interesting, and I'm glad to see there's a more structured way of interacting with MongoDB than just poking at untyped objects. I think D is still missing a really good ORM (Rikki's dvorm is a start), but there's nothing out there that conforms to the "activerecord" pattern as far as I can tell.

Hi,

I seen the Temple library and I was thinking to use it, but I did not had time to look in more details on it. It looks very nice and I will use it for sure.

The solution that I found with the dh files is just a temporary and it should be rewritten as soon as I will find a good solution for the models.

Regarding the models I tried to implement something that comforms with "activerecord" in the past, but I failed big time... I intend to do a similar interface for relational databases too, but I don't know right now how I should treat the joins...

@Rikki nice job with your projects. I did not know about them and I will take a look on them these days.

Thanks,
Bogdan