# Camping or Rails for a Webmin-ish application?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/camping-or-rails-for-a-webmin-ish-application/112221>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 16, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/camping-or-rails-for-a-webmin-ish-application/112221 "2007-08-16T14:53:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_WattengSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Christian\_WattengSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christian_WattengSS)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/camping-or-rails-for-a-webmin-ish-application/112221/1 "2007-08-16T14:53:01Z")

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I was thinking about creating a web-interface for managing a few  
things on my server, and started wondering what would be easiest to  
use when mainly running local-non-web code in the app. Like, the  
simplest operation would be just a button to the web-app, but when you  
push it, lots of ruby code will be done on the server, and the end  
result sent to the user. I don’t think any database interaction would  
be applicable… (Except maybe a user-model)

You understand?

Suggestions?

Christian…

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**Author:** ![Christian\_WattengSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Christian\_WattengSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christian_WattengSS)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/camping-or-rails-for-a-webmin-ish-application/112221/2 "2007-08-16T16:33:19Z")

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> I was thinking about creating a web-interface for managing a few  
> things on my server, and started wondering what would be easiest to  
> use when mainly running local-non-web code in the app.

I think the ease of doing stuff will be the same, as they all support  
calling things in models.

The real question is, “Which one do you want to work with?”

I’d also add Merb on your list of candidates, but that’s mainly  
because I’ve been having a lot of fun with it this week.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_WattengSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Christian\_WattengSS](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christian_WattengSS)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/camping-or-rails-for-a-webmin-ish-application/112221/3 "2007-08-16T16:58:22Z")

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On 8/16/07, Michael D. Ivey [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> > I was thinking about creating a web-interface for managing a few  
> > things on my server, and started wondering what would be easiest to  
> > use when mainly running local-non-web code in the app.

Camping should be plenty good enough to handle this, and is a lot  
smaller dependency than Rails. Go camping.

–  
Alexey V.  
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