Decoupling with Lotus

According to the Lotus website, Lotus is a web framework that aims to make Ruby web development more object-oriented. Lotus features encapsulation of MVC layers and no monkey-patching.

We won't be making an app in Lotus, but we'll be looking at its constituents to see what it offers.

Rails is magical for a reason. When we see that Lotus takes away a lot of that magic, it's easy to be skeptical. So, try to keep an open mind.

How It's Different

On the surface, Lotus initially looks like another "me-too" framework that accomplishes things just like Rails. But as we'll see, Lotus also supports a less opinionated, more object-oriented approach to building apps.

Instead of one framework, Lotus is currently composed of several gems:

• Lotus::Router


• Lotus::Utils


• Lotus::Validations


• Lotus::Model


• Lotus::View


• Lotus::Controller


• Lotus::Assets (not officially part of framework yet)

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by Robert Qualls via SitePoint