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While we're on the subject... Has anyone tried out Revel[.]? If so, what are your thoughts on it? [.] https://github.com/robfig/revel https://github.com/robfig

• zenlikethat 13y ago
  (Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to Go). I tried Revel out a little while ago, and found it awesome at first. It felt like it could have the potential to dramatically speed up the development of Go web apps. I like the server and hotswapping features a lot, for instance. But at the moment unfortunately I don't think it's very mature. Support for interacting with the DB, arguably the most important part of a web application, is pretty lacking IMO for something that otherwise wants to be an end-to-end solution. In one of the examples I noticed that all kinds of interaction with the DB was being done in the Controller, not the Model. Which just seems wrong to me (at first I thought it was a "Play" framework thing, since Revel is modeled on that, but Play uses Hibernate for an ORM in its models). Also, you'll have to roll your own support for interacting with the DB using, say, gorp: https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp That being said, robfig seems like a really cool dude, and he was responsive on github when I needed some help. The documentation is pretty great too.
  • landr0id 13y ago
    I've been meaning to get one of the examples setup and just play around with it. To be perfectly honest I'm relatively new to the world of databases and such (I've been using RoR for some projects if that explains why), so tackling that gorp will be another awesome learning experience. Thanks!