I get that it follows the theme of Django and Sinatra. But Brubeck is not a very common name (the musician Dave Brubeck is my second cousin) and I don't normally see the musical Brubecks intrude into "my" domain. :)
The world keeps getting smaller and smaller :)
I first heard take 5 when I was 11 and I've been a fan of odd time signatures ever since.
This is the first time j2labs crossed my radar… is this part of a larger project? Anyone in the know want to give the backstory on how this came about?
Brubeck + DictShield are both projects that have risen from building API's for startups. I aim to make Brubeck as useful as possible for building web projects a quick and easy process, without sacrificing easy scaling.
My thinking here is that a solid model should help developers build their idea fast and make it through the early days of startups without breaking their backs.
I don't particularly like working with Tornado because it offers little support for the plethora of Python drivers that are blocking only. On top of that, the callback model, while powerful, can lead to some seriously confusing code.
I believe people will find the combination of Mongrel2, eventlet and a database agnostic modeling system (DictShield) very flexible.
Could you list an example of what you mean by support for blocking drivers? Thanks.
can i say use pymongo in Brubeck and you are saying the blocking nature of pymongo won't affect the async nature of Brubeck ??
edit; That's just Python frameworks. The situation gets even messier when you start to consider every other languages for web development. Lots of 'hip' technologies I would love to put time into learning but I can't learn them all...
There are many python frameworks and each serves a different need. If you are a Tornado user but find the blocking / nonblocking paradigm confusing, you would probably get a lot out of Brubeck because it replaces the IOLoop (like Twisted's reactor) with a simpler system, eventlet.
I'm glad you think it's hip! It's only a couple months old.
This should probably go to the top. If you have a small application (say less than 10.000 lines of code) the framework probably isn't your problem anyways. And if you have more code than that, it's still not that hard to switch systems when you really have to. In fact even switching out core components like an ORM is possible and achievable if you write a little shim and get rid of that step by step. Better spend your time making the system better. The framework choice used to be a lot harder when the systems were incompatible. But this clearly no longer is the case."
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/12/24/common-mistakes-as-web-de...
In spite of this, however, Brubeck indeed aims to be a one-stop shop. It uses coroutines + nonblocking I/O to make scaling up easy but it also a web.py style routing system because all of us know this style already.
In this case, the plethora of frameworks is an advantage for the advanced developer, while the few big obvious ones stand out for newcomers.
I never got around to playing around with Mongrel2 but always wanted to.
I'm a huge Flask fan and will most likely (after looking through some of the source) be using Brubeck from now on on the Py side of things. It covers the basics very well.
Bravo!
Btw, equally impressive is DictShield.
Will you create any special cases for 'modules/extentions' or will continue to keep things agnostic?
Beyond that I attempted to create a familiar interface for everyone who's used a pythonic web framework before. Indeed, a lot like Flask, but also like Tornado.
* Tornado style routing: https://github.com/j2labs/brubeck/blob/master/demos/demo_min...
* Flask style routing: https://github.com/j2labs/brubeck/blob/master/demos/demo_noc...
I wouldn't use Brubeck without WSGI solely because I don't want to write an app dependent on its web server.
I must give it a try at the next new web project.
Having built-in support for Tornado templates will make it much easier to transform an existing one in the future.
Thank you j2lab for sharing!
TIR == LUA
Brubeck == PythonListsurf: https://github.com/j2labs/listsurf
The more complex app implements a full social network on top of Brubeck. I think it will be called Rubik, but I'm not sure yet.
It'll pop up on my github page sooner or later though: https://github.com/j2labs