About Skinny Framework Progress Situation

@seratch 2013/11/28 at “怖いScala” in Tokyo

What’s Skinny Framework

!   Scala on Rails (but atually similar to Padrino?)

!   Apps and framework should be skinny

!   su-ki-ni = “As you like it” in Japanese

!   Servlet is useful enough

!   Easy-to-use but production-ready

!   Scalatra + ScalikeJDBC + Scalate + json4s

History

!   the end of 2013/8 Prototyping started

!   9/25 Kabukiza.tech #1 in Tokyo (ver. 0.1.0)

!   10/19 Kowakunai-Scala in Tokyo (ver. 0.9.4)

!   11/28 Here today (ver. 0.9.17)

!   FY 2013 4Q: Version 1.0.0 will be released

version 0.9.4 Features

!   Rails-like APIs which wraps Scalatra

!   ActiveResource-like REST controller

!   before/after filters only within each controller

!   Form Validator

!   ORM basic APIs (CRUD、Associations)

!   ORM timestamps, soft deletion, optimistic locking

!   Scalate, FreeMarker template engine support

version 0.9.4 Features

!   i18n support

!   Testing support (mocking sessions easily)

!   factory_girl-like fixture tool (FactoryGirl)

!   Yeoman Generator for blank project

!   skinny-blank-app.zip

version 0.9.17

!   Scaffold Generator is added!

!   db:migrate command is added!

!   db:migrate multiple DB support!

!   CoffeeScript、LESS、Sass support!

!   Windows users as first-class citizen!

!   package command is much improved!

!   publish command is added!

version 0.9.17

!   ServletContext#mount performance issue is fixed!

!   ORM #includes (Eager Loading) API is added!

!   Thymeleaf template engine support!

!   Many bug fixes and much refactored!

!   skinny-framework.org & documentation!

!   GitHub organization

!   Twitter @skinnyframework

skinny-framework.org

Should be fixed in 1.0

!   Mailer APIs

!   OmniAuth-like Authentication APIs

!   OpenID、OAuth consumer feature by default

!   Asset Pipeline

!   Framework APIs should be well-considered and stable

Roadmap

!   FY 2013 4Q: 1.0.0 will be released

!   1.0.0.beta1-n: public APIs should be reviewed

!   After 1.0, bug fixes and new feature development will be continued

!   We emphasize stable APIs

!   We’d like to promise that we never change major APIs in version 1.0.x or 1.1.x.

Feel free to contribute issues or pull requests. If you hope to join us,

please let me know!

Twitter: @skinnyframework

Just unzip skinny-blank-app.zip & skinny run!

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