Development Update and Ruby on Rails
2006.04.10 13:27
A lot of stuff has been going on, unfortunately most of it not with Templation. Aside from the usual slew of client work I've also gotten married and taken some much needed vacation time to go boarding up in Colorado.
Templation is working well for me, and I'm getting only a couple emails a month about it, so progress is slow. If you happen to be using Templation and are waiting expectantly for any new features, you can certainly expedite progress by emailing me.
Personally I've got one big itch to scratch, and that's Ruby on Rails compatibility. This has been a conundrum for me, because I tend to write small applications that are integrated with larger static sites; that's the target that Templation aims at. 100-500 lines of PHP code is enough to wish I was using Rails, but not necessarily enough to give up Templation.
In many ways, Templation shares the design principles of Ruby and Rails such as Convention Over Configuration and Don't Repeat Yourself. On the other hand, Templation is all about basic content and navigation. The two are conceptually complementary.
I'm not sure if a complete port into Rails is necessary, but a clean integration as a Rails plugin would probably garner some welcome interest from the Rails community. I'm not excited about maintaining two codebases, but since I've got one foot firmly planted in each it seems the logical next step.
