Tutorial: VMware Cloud Foundry + Rails + MongoDB (opens in new tab)

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45 pointsjsr14y ago11 comments

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I spent some time adding Python/WSGI support to CloudFoundry over the weekend...in general, this project is extremely well designed and SOLID. Almost all of the headaches involved with, for example, adding Django support, stem from Django's conventions and requirements (something I'm not a stranger to).

I'm really looking forward to the future of CloudFoundry.

swanson14y ago

What does that mean for Djangy?

endlessvoid9414y ago

http://blog.djangy.com/2011/02/27/final-djangy-newsletter/

lusis14y ago

If anyone is curious, I did a post about plain sinatra apps and some of the gotchas with Cloud Foundry here:

http://lusislog.blogspot.com/2011/04/sinatra-noah-and-cloudf...

Sinatra support is pretty basic at this point but it promises to get better over time. The code has several TODOs related to sinatra and node.

cmelbye14y ago

The thing that I don't understand is that the problem of getting frameworks to work consistently with web servers has already been solved by the Rack project. For the life of me, I can't understand why CF doesn't simply look for a config.ru file and pass it to Thin and be done with it.

derekcollison14y ago

We plan on doing that, appreciate the feedback.

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lusis14y ago

Yeah I was a bit confused by this as well. I haven't looked at the rails code in vcap yet but you're right in stating that this is a solved problem. I think they were going for something a little more generic for code reuse reasons? I plan on sitting down with the code in earnest and helping flush out the rack/sinatra stuff to be better tuned for that use case.

dinedal14y ago

I'm excited about Cloud Foundry, but I'm still waiting on my invite.

I hope they scale up soon so I can play with it, as it seems really awesome.

Andys14y ago

Isn't the idea that you can run it locally?

pbrumm14y ago

Nice. I was playing with this yesterday and hit up against a lack of documentation on configuring your db connect strings.

Great timing

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