Nitro is seeing some action again recently, which is mighty good, obviously. Nitro is a free software framework (under the liberal BSD licence) for building wep applications quickly, utilizing the lightweight Ruby language.
The 0.42 release is very outdated compared to the repo version, so we’re all preparing for a dazzling 0.50.
The team has decided to switch from Test/Unit to RSpec, so we’re busy doing the conversion and making sure all specs go green. There’s also an updated example blog application bundled with the source, that demonstrates the new API. Be sure to check it out and report any problems!
So why Nitro, and not Rails for instance? To put it in the words of lead developer George Moschivitis, “Nitro is to Rails what Ruby is to Python”.
I’ll leave it to your curiosity to find out what that really means. Suffice to say that after six months of trying to master Rails, Nitro was a breath of fresh air for me. I’m very happy to help the developers to move this project forward. If you have any questions, head over to #Nitro on freenode IRC.
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