Geddy
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Geddy is a web framework for Node by Matthew Eernisse inspired by larger web frameworks like Rails. It has a command line application which can be used to build and run apps. It supports routing, with Rails-style resources.
Installation
The author currently recommends using version 0.1.94 of Node, so upgrade if necessary.
git clone git://github.com/mde/geddy.git
cd geddy
make
sudo make install
App Configuration
An app can be generated with geddy-gen app app-name. This will create an app template files, much like Rails. Then all you need to do is edit config/environments/development.js to include database config, and you can generate resources with geddy-gen resource resource-name.
The configuration file should have an example database config commented out. There are more examples here: The two-minute Geddy app.
Issues
I ran into problems building node-sqlite for the current version of Node. The version on GitHub seems newer than the one on Google Code, but I can’t get Geddy to work with it. Because Node changed a lot over the last few months, I assume the sqlite library hasn’t caught up yet.
Future
The author mentions that the project is being used commercially at Yammer, so hopefully work will continue and the project won’t be left idle like so many Node frameworks.
Geddy is based around resources, so it will save a lot of time when building many types of apps and APIs. This framework will appeal to Rails developers; it could be a good way of attracting Rails developers to Node. Success will be purely down to keeping up with Node’s changes and making installation as easy as possible.
