- Assets preprocessors support (eg. Sass, ES6, Opal, Less, CoffeScript..)
- Assets compressors (eg. YUI, UglifyJS2, Google Closure Compiler, Sass..)
- Assets helpers:
javascript
stylesheet
favicon
image
video
audio
asset_path
asset_url
- Content Delivery Network (CDN) support for static assets (CDN mode)
- Checksum suffix for static assets in production mode (Digest mode)
- Support for third party gems as assets distribution channel (eg.
lotus-jquery
) - CLI:
lotus assets
commandprecompile
: preprocess, minify and append checksum suffix - CLI:
lotus destroy
destroy apps, models, actions, migrations and mailers - Custom initializers (
apps/web/config/initializers
) - Rake tasks
:preload
and:environment
- Mailers
- CLI:
lotus generate mailer
- SQL joins
- Custom coercers for data mapper
- Application architecture
- Database migrations
- CLI:
lotus db
commands:create
,drop
,prepare
,migrate
,version
,apply
. - HTML5 Form helpers
- Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection
- Force SSL
- Number formatting helper
- Automatic secure cookies
- Routing helpers for actions
- Send files from actions
Lotus.root
returns top level directory of the project.
- CLI:
lotus generate app admin
creates a new application (apps/admin
). - CLI:
lotus generate model user
. It generates entity, repository and related unit test files. Lotus.env
andLotus.env?
for current environment introspection (eg.Lotus.env?(:test)
orLotus.env?(:staging, :production)
)- Allow repositories to execute raw query/commands against database
- Automatic timestamps update for entities
– Dirty Tracking for entities (via
Lotus::Entity::DirtyTracking
) - Nested RESTful resource(s)
- String pluralization and singularization
- CLI:
lotus generate action web dashboard#index
. It generates an action, a view, a template, a route and related unit test files. - CLI:
lotus db console
. It starts a database REPL. - Full featured HTML5 markup generator for views (Eg.
html.div { p "Hello World" }
) - Routing helpers in views and templates (Eg.
routes.home_path
). lotus new
supports--database
(Eg.lotus new bookshelf --database=postgresql
).- Initialize a Git repository when generate a new application
- Security: XSS (Cross Site Scripting) protections
- Security: Clickhijacking protection
- Security: Cookies are set as
HttpOnly
by default. - Security: enable by default
X-Frame-Options
andContent-Security-Policy
HTTP headers for new generated applications. - Security: auto-escape output of presenters.
- Security: auto-escape output of virtual an concrete view methods.
- Security: view and template helpers for HTML, HTML attributes and URL escape. It's based on OWASP/ESAPI recommendations.
- Access nested action params with a safe API (
params.get('address.city')
). - Interactors (aka Service Objects)
- Database transactions
- Allow entities to include validations.
lotus new .
to generate a Lotus project for an existing code base (Eg. a gem that needs a web UI).lotus new
supports--path
(for destination directory),--test
(to generate Minitest or RSpec boilerplate).- Lotus logger
- Support Minitest as default testing framework (
bundle exec rake
runs the entire test suite of an application). - Support for Method Override technique.
- Custom templates for non successful responses (Eg.
404.html.erb
). - Support distinct
.env
files for each Lotus environment. - Allow to configure multiple applications and handle Lotus environments accordingly.
- Allow to configure middleware stack, routes, database mapping and adapter for each application.
- Show a welcome page with instructions for new generated apps.
- CLI:
lotus routes
. It prints all the routes available for all the applications. - CLI:
lotus new
. It generates a new application which can run multiple Lotus applications (Container architecture). - CLI:
lotus console
. It starts a Ruby REPL. It supports IRB (default), Pry and Ripl. - CLI:
lotus server
. It starts a web server that supports code reloading. It supports all the Rack web servers (default: WEBRick). - Database adapters: File system (default for new apps)
- Allow to share code for all the views and actions of an application
- Reusable validations framework (mixin). It supports: coercions and presence, format, acceptance, size, inclusion, exclusion, confirmation validations.
- Default Content-Type and Charset for responses
- Whitelist accepted MIME Types
- Custom exception handlers for actions
- Unique identifier for incoming HTTP requests
- Nested action params
- Action params indifferent access, whitelisting, validations and coercions
- HTTP caching (
Cache-Control
,Last-Modified
, ETAG, Conditional GET, expires) - JSON body parser for non-GET HTTP requests
- Routes inspector for CLI
- Run multiple Lotus applications in the same Ruby process
- Serve static files
- Render default pages for non successful responses (404, 500, etc.)
- Support multiple Lotus environments (development, test and production)
- Full stack applications
- Data mapper
- Database adapters: Memory and SQL
- Reusable scopes for repositories
- Repositories
- Entities
- Custom rendering implementation via
#render
override in views - Render partials and templates
- Presenters
- Layouts
- Views are able to handle multiple MIME Types according to the defined templates
- Support for all the most common template engines for Ruby. Including ERb, Slim, HAML, etc.
- Basic view rendering with templates
- Bypass rendering by setting a response body in actions (
self.body = "Hello"
) - Single actions are able to mount Rack middleware
- Automatic MIME Type handling for request and responses
- HTTP sessions
- HTTP cookies
- HTTP redirect
- Action before/after callbacks
- Handle exceptions with HTTP statuses
- Action exposures, to expose a payload to pass to the other application layers
- Actions compatible with Rack
- Mount Rack applications
- Nested route namespaces
- RESTful resource(s), including collection and member actions
- Named routes, routes constraints, variables, catch-all
- Compatibility with Lotus::Controller
- HTTP redirect from the router
- HTTP routing compatible with Rack
- Thread safety