Camping is a

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microframework written in

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. Camping's source code is less than 4 KB in size. It was created and updated by the programmer known as "

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" until version 1.5. Around that time Why's focus shifted towards Hackety Hack and related project Shoes. Why provided Judofyr (a major contributor) with admin access on rubyforge.org and other sites. Judofyr took over as de facto head of the project.StackOverflow answer
explanation referring to Judofyr's ongoing maintenance Since then Camping has been a community driven framework with contributions from many people and a small but helpful community. While Judofyr is sometimes seen as a leader, he's insisted camping be governed by consensus on the (now defunct) mailing list. Why's eventual departure solidified the project as being communally run, and is notable for being one of the few former Why projects to be taken over by the community before Why's disappearance. Current editions o
Camping
are available from

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and are distributed as a RubyGem.

Overview

Camping stores a complete fledgling

in a single file, like a bundle of many small CGI scripts, but organizes it as a

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application as

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does. Camping applications can stand alone, meet niche requirements as 'the small wheels' that serve larger setups, or easily be ported to

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Installation

For a basic installation, Camping only requires Rack (0.3 or higher) and (if you want to write HTML)

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(0.5 or higher), both available as

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. Further details can be found on th
Camping wiki
To use a database (

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by default) you'll also need the ActiveRecord and Sqlite3-ruby Rubygems. Run camping yourappname.rb to launch the application on port 3301.

Tutorials

Th
introductory tutorial
builds a minimal unstyled wiki (download workin
example wiki code
, and th
Camping examples
contains a tiny but fully functioning css-styled blog. Earlier Camping 1.5 examples will either run without modification or require only slight adjustments to run under Camping 2.0.

References

External links

Camping 2.0.* on GitHub

Camping wiki on GitHub

Camping mailing list: messages by thread

Why Camping Matters
by Nathaniel Talbott at rubyconf 2007 * *

Why's poignant guide to Ruby
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Overview

Installation

Tutorials

See also

References

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