Persumi - Level up your writing and blogging with AI Fred Wu ifredwu@gmail.com http://persumi.com/u/fredwu http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/t/flourish 2026-05-01T13:43:26.116593Z <![CDATA[<p> A few days ago I discovered <a href="http://www.padrinorb.com/">Padrino</a>, an excellent ruby framework built on top of <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a>. What can be a better than experimenting with it? Build an actual website with it!</p> <p> So last night I ported <a href="http://wuit.com/">Wuit.com</a> from using vanilla PHP + <a href="http://flourishlib.com/">Flourish</a> to using Padrino + <a href="http://datamapper.org/">DataMapper</a> + <a href="http://haml-lang.com/">Haml</a>.</p> <p> The entire porting experience was positive, albeit the website only has two pages.</p> <p> I did encounter a strange problem with <a href="http://www.capify.org/">Capistrano</a> though - both <code class="inline">current_release</code> and <code class="inline">latest_release</code> were giving me strange results. In the end I had to modify my deployment recipe to overcome this.</p> <p> For building small to medium sized projects, I think Padrino is an excellent choice, as it offers a more complete foundation than Sinatra, and is not as heavy as Rails.</p> ]]> 2010-07-01T21:59:28.000000Z Fred Wu ifredwu@gmail.com http://persumi.com/u/fredwu http://persumi.com/u/fredwu/tech/e/blog/p/wuit-com-now-runs-on-padrino 2010-07-01T21:59:28.000000Z