Nitro: A Rails contender?

I copy-edited [a Nitro article](http://www.oxyliquit.de/tutorial/4) on using the fulltext search index facility [TSearch2](http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/) for [Postgres](http://www.postgresql.org/). (Smart way to read an article slowly enough to let all of it seep in.)

[Nitro](http://www.nitroproject.org) is an MVC web framework written in Ruby. “For Web2.0”, you know.

Interested Nitro neophytes can head over to [Oxyliquit](http://www.oxyliquit.de/), the Nitro Q&A website, which has tutorials, FAQs, articles, and all the other resources you may need. And a link to #nitro at irc.freenode.net.

After reading about Postgres, and hearing about it, from Peter Marklund, I was encouraged enough: I compiled it and installed it on laptop, using [this fine Apple tutorial](http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html). A thorough, helpful walk-through.

Reading [the Postgres 8.1.4 documentation](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/) was a little like paging through a blasphemous tome of ancient knowledge: all of my “Keep Your Logic Out Of The Data Storage” ideas were challenged, and I was often wow’ed with the raw power. On every page, with all the new features. I have some digesting to do. Let the new gospel sink in. Take a stand.

What are your feelings about Postgres’ power?

Published by olleolleolle

Olle is a programmer, enjoying sunny Malmö in Sweden.

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