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Pancake - stacken them up

by gcao —

I came across Pancake today and feel it could be a game changer on developing rack based applications. Here is extracted from its readme:

While Rack provides the low level framework for building web applications on, Pancake provides a stack as a place to start your application. A stack provides a whole bunch of behavior for you including a router and middleware stack. The stack will accept any valid Rack application as the endpoint.

Sounds like it can greatly simplify managing a big site with multiple rack based apps, e.g. an authentication app + a CMS + more apps.

Comments

This is the next natural progression from the Merb experiment. I think Pancake is going to grab a lot of Ruby hacker types once it raises in the ranks of popularity and usability. I’ve already started experimenting with it on the side.

cheapRoc —

I agree - this is definitely something that I can see using. I’ve definitely been waiting for something to help me manage all the middleware when I’m outside the Rails stack.

I wonder - could you package (gemify) a pancake stack?

dpickett —

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