Frost

Full featured MVC Web Framework for the Crystal programming language, largely inspired by Ruby on Rails (ie. implements most of its API).

Frost is to Ruby on Rails what Crystal is to Ruby: similar API, developer hapiness and productivity, but enhanced with static typing (mostly hidden) and incredible performance.

STATUS: DEVELOPER PREVIEW

WARNING: Frost is in developer preview, and must be considered alpha software until further notice. features may be added, dropped, tweaked, or changed dramatically at any time. Please experiment with Frost, contribute to Frost, let's make it incerdiable, but build software out of it at your own risk! You've been warned :-)

Frost likely won't hit stable until the Crystal programming language is stable.

INSTALL

Start by cloning the Frost repository, then use the application generator to bootstrap your project. For example for a myapp application:

$ git clone https://github.com/ysbaddaden/frost.git
$ crystal frost/src/cli.cr -- new myapp
$ cd myapp
$ crystal deps install

Getting Started

Nothing fancy, just the regular flow:

Data:

• write migrations in db/migrations;
• create models in app/models;
• write tests in test/models.

Application Logic:

• add routes to config/routes.cr;
• create controllers and actions in app/controllers;
• design views in app/views;
• write tests in test/controllers.

See Getting Started With Frost for an example.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See MIT-LICENSE

Authors

• The Ruby on Rails Team that modeled an awesome framework.
• Julien Portalier (@ysbaddaden) for bringing it to Crystal.