Hobo, paypal, jquery and some general questions.

[nick]

Hi, I'm very new to hobo as in "just researching it right now", so
pardon my ignorance. (I searched old forums and groups and couldn't
find any discussions on these topics)

1) As I understand hobo is built on top of Rails, adding lot's of
extra functionality and shortcuts, replacing erb, with dryml. Am I
correct? If so, then how well does hobo play with other rails plugins.
Are there a lot of conflicts? In particular I'm interested to find out
how well it plays with ActriveMerchant and paypal? Did anyone had any
experience with that or other payment plugins?

2) Another question is about javascript. From what I glimpsed - hobo
makes use of some javascript. Is it framework specific? In all of my
rails apps so far I was able to use jquery (not jrails thou) without
too much trouble. How is situation in hobo?

3) How well does hobo play with mod_rails (Phusion Passenger) on a
Debian Etch system? Anyone had any trouble/success setting it up and
running it that way?

4) What's the largest known project that runs on hobo? I'm interested
in loads it can handle. Does it have a much higher footprint then
rails?

Thank you for all of your responses in advance.

[kevinpfromnm]

Since no one responded...
1. Hobo just adds function, doesn't replace or remove. I.e. you can
still use erb. I have not run into any problems with plugins other
than trying to get them into dryml (but it's always an option to use
erb). No particular experience with payment plugins

2. Hobos javascript is based off prototype (like rails). Shouldn't be
too hard to use another, but removing prototype calls from hobo code
would probably be somewhat difficult and just adding another
javascript framework on top can be a significant bump in download
size. Though if you don't use most of hobo's automatic ajax stuff and
write your own, it wouldn't be a problem.

3. I've gotten hobo working on mod_rails on an ubuntu 8 box.
Shouldn't be any harder on debian.

4. Unknown by me, though I've seen a fair hit in speed for what little
code I've done in both dryml and erb. Like 2 or 3 times slower but
might've been fixable with right optimization.

[Owen Dall]

3. We have Hobo running with  Passenger on both CentOS and Redhat Enterprise w/o any issues.  We also had it on Ubuntu 8 before that...

Most of our development is on Windows XP workstations...