October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
16h 55m
English
IOWA (Interpreted Objects for Web Applications) is a web framework written by Kirk Haines. IOWA enables development with reusable, encapsulated web components for site generation.
An IOWA application runs in a persistent Ruby process that listens on a socket for requests. IOWA includes various adapters so that the source of that request may be CGI, Mongrel, WEBrick, and so on.
The IOWA home page includes a good explanation of the underlying architecture plus a tutorial, so here we’ll just take a look at some key features.
IOWA is available for downloading from rubyforge.org. A gem version may be ready when version 1.0 is released. The examples here were built with a preview release ...
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