Totally different approach to formatting system
Gregory Brown
I'm working on a tiny library "Fatty", which is essentially "File
Abstraction Toolkit-ty". You can think of it as something
quasi-similar to Sinatra, but for abstract formatting.
If we went with this approach in Ruport 2.0, then Ruport would just
include "Format bases" for use with Fatty. It is *extremely* lean
while still providing much of the core functionality that Ruport's raw
formatting system has. Please take a look at the (very contrived)
example, and at the underlying implementation, and tell me what you
think:
http://github.com/sandal/fatty
If you find yourself requiring more explanation after reading the
source / example, just hang tight and I'll be writing tests, more
examples, and a blog post. But for those who have been complaining
about the formatting system in the past, much of the new approach is
thanks to your perspective, so please do take a look.
-greg
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Gregory Brown
On Jan 20, 6:14 pm, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm working on a tiny library "Fatty", which is essentially "File
> Abstraction Toolkit-ty". You can think of it as something
something Fatty. As much as I try to come up with backronyms,
they're just lame attempts to conceal the fact that I have an
obsession with bad library names. :)
-greg