# Simple web site - Rails, Nitro, Others?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-web-site-rails-nitro-others/86423>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 22, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-web-site-rails-nitro-others/86423 "2007-02-22T04:45:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-web-site-rails-nitro-others/86423/1 "2007-02-22T04:45:28Z")

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Hi,

I’ve developed a mid-sized web application in rails, but I’m not sure  
rails is the right choice for my latest project.

I need to put together a web site with a handful of pages and a few  
dynamic elements driven by interactive web service lookups. I don’t  
need a database and don’t expect the site to expand a lot, but would  
like to have some integrated page level caching.

I’d prefer to use ruby, but I only need the simplest of web frameworks  
(even something PHPish would probably do). I found Nitro, but the  
lack of documentation scares me - I don’t want to spend weeks trying  
to figure out how to do simple things 🙂 Any suggestions? Also, is  
anyone using nitro in a production app?

Thanks!  
Dan

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**Author:** ![dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/simple-web-site-rails-nitro-others/86423/2 "2007-02-22T04:53:30Z")

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On 2/21/07, Dan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’d prefer to use ruby, but I only need the simplest of web frameworks  
> (even something PHPish would probably do). I found Nitro, but the  
> lack of documentation scares me - I don’t want to spend weeks trying  
> to figure out how to do simple things 🙂 Any suggestions? Also, is  
> anyone using nitro in a production app?

Check out Camping 🙂

[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping)