**Web Oriented Object Framework**

[APN] 20100104 Woof! 0.4 has been released. Release Announcement: [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/78f85d113f6a2c9c#]

   1. Quickstart: [http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/quick_start]
   2. Programming Guide: [http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/index]
   3. Reference Manual: [http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/woof_manual.html]

Supports multiple web servers ([Apache], [IIS], [Lighttpd] etc.) and
interfaces (Apache module, [CGI], [SCGI]).
Tested (and I use the word *very* loosely!) on Linux and XP.

***What it is***

A year or so, I needed to build a web site with dynamic page generation (for the first time) and landed up using Rails simply because I did not find anything suitable that was Tcl-based. I was quite impressed with Rails, having the basic site up and running in under a week despite no prior experience with Rails or [Ruby]. However, I find that although Ruby was fun in many ways, in terms of *productivity*, for me personally, Tcl still rules. So in December, when I had need to build a second site, this time with much more back-end code, I decided to stick to Tcl and try to do a basic Rails clone in Tcl. The [TclOO] and [TDBC] additions to Tcl 8.6 were the triggers, since I thought it would be a good chance to learn both along the way.

Woof! does not try to break any new ground. For one, I have very little experience in the area. Rails was sufficient for my needs and based on its popularity, did lots of things right. So for the most part, the intent is to follow its design and focus on the implementation. At the same time, I want to keep it small and simple. I often felt Rails tried to do too much out of the box. Woof! is intended to be

   * Well documented and easily installable/deployable. This is priority one.
   * Multi-platform
   * Web server independent (tested with [Apache], [IIS] and [Lighttpd])
   * Runs in a safe interpreter (as of V0.4)
   * Embeddable
   * [MVC] architecture (like Rails)
   * Currently focused on the Rails ActiveController/ActiveView functionality, hopefully it can pick up the ActiveRecord equivalent from some other Tcl'er.

Source repository is at [http://sourceforge.net/projects/woof].

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Woof! includes the [Ruff!] documentation generator.

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MSA I am trying woof! with http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646%|%xampp for Windows... It seems there is a misprint in online manual. Apache httpd.conf 
(or .htaccess) must have string
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi_server.tcl/$1 [QSA,L]
instead of 
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi_server.tcl [QSA,L] or RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi_server.tcl$1 [QSA,L]

[APN] I will take a look when I get a chance but I think the rewrite rule might depend on whether the application URL root is / or something below /. What error did you get with the configuration as documented ? 

MSA For SharedCGI (first) I viewed only first page. Links didn't work. For dedicated CGI (second) I got error 
    Application error
    Woof application failed to start properly
In apache log I found
     [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration
     error.    Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

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[AEC] I have been working on an app using bowwow/woof.  I have most of the app working as I wish.  I would like to add a function which requires file upload.  My results seem to suggest that wibble or woof don't handle enctype='multipart/form-data' correctly.  Is this correct?

[AMG]: At the moment this is true, although I am working on adding this feature to [Wibble].  For the last few weeks I haven't had time to touch Wibble, and the next few weeks aren't looking good either.  But I promise that I do have lots of code already completed that take Wibble in the direction of supporting file uploads.

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