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		mtw on Jan 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Standalone web applications using OCaml + Ocsigen,... this is like comparing Apache vs Rails. OCaml + Ocsigen is just a web server with handy features to generate clean modern html. Rails on the other hand has an ORM plus the other libraires to make it a real web framework.

mfp on Jan 10, 2009 [–]

What is needed to make something a "real" web framework? Ocsigen/Eliom does handle sessions, routing, page parameters, forms, continuation-based sites, templating and other things you'd expect from a web framework. The main thing Rails includes but Ocsigen/Eliom doesn't is an ORM.

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