Reimplementation address book program

[andrea]

On one of my servers (linux) I have a nice address book over ldap.
It is automatically integrated with thunderbird and other programs,
but none of them is capable of modifying (or at least easily).

Since I want it very simple and error prone I did it myself, but in
PHP.

It works pretty fine but every time I look to the code I get disgusted
and I haven't still added some necessary features, so given that I
want to rewrite it in ruby, I need some hints..

I may use rails in the future but I want to start very smoothly, it
was implemented in php + smarty, and that's fine like approach.

I only need 2 things:
- insert a new record
- modify a record from a list
Sorting searching etc are not really necessary, and integrity checks
should be done with javascript (as it is now).

I want to do it as smart and possible, because mainly I want to learn
and not less important I want to maintain code that I like...
THanks for any hints

 

[andrea]

I started to do some searches and I find out I can use net/ldap for
manipulating data and amrita2 to create the templates.
What do you think??

Another thing, what does :: really mean??
Net::LDAP means what? Look in the Net module for the LDAP class??

And why sometimes i find (fake example)
String.join, String#join, Net::LDAP

 

[andrea]

Looks like amrita is dead or almost, I find almost no documentation
other than the source code and a readme file.

Should I really go for rails? Otherwise what else??
I only need to generate smartly some forms and get the output of them.
Rails is not directly usable because my "db" is an ldap tree...

 

[andrea]

Looks like amrita is dead or almost, I find almost no documentation
other than the source code and a readme file.

Should I really go for rails? Otherwise what else??
I only need to generate smartly some forms and get the output of them.
Rails is not directly usable because my "db" is an ldap tree...

Is there anybody out there??
I went to haml finally, which looks really nice. It's even too much
powerful, it tempts me to write everything in one page

 

[Richard Conroy]

Is there anybody out there??

It might help if you actually posed a question, or phrased your problem
better. I *think* you are trying to make a web based administration interface
to an LDAP directory, but I am not sure.

You might get better information on Rails talk, but your core problem is your
backend - its an LDAP directory not a database, so your problem might be
better served by anything that uses DataMapper, which doesn't restrict your
data sources.

Merb might be a better choice, or possibly even Sinatra, which is simpler and
might put less barriers in your learning (and works very well with Haml, which
you like).

regards,
Richard.