Cake

Tasked with building an online file management system for a client, I decided to take the opportunity to try building on top of the Cake framework. Based on the uber popular Ruby on Rails, Cake is already mature enough to build functional data driven web applications. After working with Cake for a few days now, I’m even more interested in giving Rails a go for my next product - and only because it seems Cake is relegated to playing catch up for the time being.

The strategy employed by Cake’s creators to closely emulate Rails is interesting, and I think it will pay off by way of helping to get early adopters on board. Looking to understand Cake concepts? Look at the much more complete Rails documentation.

That being said, given that tutorials for developing with Cake are sparse I’m thinking of lending a hand and delivering some additional documentation for the community. I truly do need 48 hours in the day.