sort of continued from the hijacked thread the other day....

So here's the deal, I dig ruby but I also dig django. I'm hoping maybe some of you ruby guys can point me in the direction of a ruby framework that has some of the key concepts I love in django.

The biggest one is the concept of writing smaller, more generic reusable apps. Alot of the sites I build (probably most people) have pieces in common, it's so nice to be able to write a generic self contained app (including models, templates, forms, urls, everything) for a situation that comes up repeatedly and plug it in from project to project. Honestly if I could find a framework that encouraged that it would probably be enough for me.

I also like the way urls are routed using regex and the ability to map a url too include another routing file.

So is there anything like that in the ruby world?

Sinatra Rack

Those are good for what you are talking about. You can use Rack to run apps from inside a larger application stack like Rails.

Forget scaling though, we all know Ruby can't scale.

Cool, thanks. I suppose I need to look into Sinatra more. That's the second time it's been recommended to me.