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Let the blogging contests begin!!

Today, the International Kayak Consortium celebrates Camping (a Microframework)’s 1st birthday. They have honored the paragraph of code by awarding it the Annual First Place in Birthdaying Special Day Award and So Brave.

The commissioner of kayaking LeBrock Mitchell gave an acceptance speech on behalf of Camping at this morning’s banquet. His sentiments were brief, but stirring:

I have written two speeches for today, a long one and a short one. However, the pages for both got wet inside my kayak. Yes, I tried blow-drying them. But as I held that that cylinder of hot air, I realize that I couldn’t say anything as brief as Camping itself.

And he held up a printout of Camping from trunk and he wept exactly 4k of tears. We, in fact, measured with a graduated cylinder.

Here is Camping today.

%w[active_support markaby tempfile uri].map{|l|require l}
module Camping;Apps=[];C=self;S=IO.read(__FILE__).sub(/S=I.+$/,'')
P="Cam\ping Problem!";module Helpers;def R(c,*g);p,h=/\(.+?\)/,g.grep(Hash)
(g-=h).inject(c.urls.find{|x|x.scan(p).size==g.size}.dup){|s,a|s.sub p,C.
escape((a[a.class.primary_key]rescue a))}+(h.any?? "?"+h[0].map{|x|x.map{|z|C.
escape z}*"="}*"&": "")end;def URL c='/',*a;c=R(c,*a)if c.respond_to?:urls
c=self/c;c="//"+@env.HTTP_HOST+c if c[/^\//];URI(c)end;def/p;p[/^\//]?@root+p :
p end;def errors_for o;ul.errors{o.errors.each_full{|x|li x}}if o.errors.any?end
end;module Base;include Helpers;attr_accessor:input,:cookies,:env,:headers,:body,
:status,:root;def method_missing*a,&b;a.shift if a[0]==:render;m=Mab.new {},self
s=m.capture{send(*a,&b)};s=m.capture{send(:layout){s}} if /^_/!~a[0].to_s and m.
respond_to?:layout;s end;def r s,b,h={};@status=s;@headers.merge!h;@body=b end
def redirect*a;r 302,'','Location'=>URL(*a)end;Z="\r\n";def to_a;[@status,@body,
@headers]end;def initialize r,e,m;e=H[e.to_hash];@status,@method,@env,@headers,
@root=200,m.downcase,e,{'Content-Type'=>"text/html"},e.SCRIPT_NAME.sub(/\/$/,'')
@k=C.kp e.HTTP_COOKIE;q=C.qsp e.QUERY_STRING;@in=r;if%r|\Amultipart/form-.*boun\
dary=\"?([^\";,]+)|n.match e.CONTENT_TYPE;b=/(?:\r?\n|\A)#{Regexp::quote("--#$1" 
)}(?:--)?\r$/;until@in.eof?;fh=H[];for l in@in;case l;when Z;break
when/^Content-D.+?: form-data;/;fh.u H[*$'.scan(/(?:\s(\w+)="([^"]+)")/).flatten]
when/^Content-Type: (.+?)(\r$|\Z)/m;fh[:type]=$1;end;end;fn=fh[:name];o=if
fh[:filename];o=fh[:tempfile]=Tempfile.new(:C);o.binmode;else;fh=""end;while l=@in.
read(16384);if l=~b;o<<$`.chomp;@in.seek(-$'.size,IO::SEEK_CUR);break;end;o<<l
end;C.qsp(fn,'&;',fh,q) if fn;fh[:tempfile].rewind if fh.is_a?H;end;elsif@method==
"post";q.u C.qsp(@in.read)end;@cookies,@input=@k.dup,q.dup end;def service*a
@body=send(@method,*a)if respond_to?@method;@headers["Set-Cookie"]=@cookies.map{
|k,v|"#{k}=#{C.escape(v)}; path=#{self/'/'}"if v!=@k[k]}-[nil];self end;def to_s
a=[];@headers.map{|k,v|[*v].map{|x|a<<"#{k}: #{x}"}};"Status: #{@status}#{Z+a*Z+
Z*2+@body}"end;end;X=module Controllers;@r=[];class<<self;def r;@r;end;def R*u
r=@r;Class.new{meta_def(:urls){u};meta_def(:inherited){|x|r<<x}}end;def M;def M
end;constants.map{|c|k=const_get(c);k.send:include,C,Base,Models;r[0,0]=k if
!r.include?k;k.meta_def(:urls){["/#{c.downcase}"]}if !k.respond_to?:urls}end;def
D p;r.map{|k|k.urls.map{|x|return k,$~[1..-1]if p=~/^#{x}\/?$/}};[NotFound,[p]]end
end;class NotFound<R();def get p;r(404,Mab.new{h1 P;h2 p+" not found"})end end
class ServerError<R();def get k,m,e;r(500,Mab.new{h1 P;h2"#{k}.#{m}";h3"#{e.class
} #{e.message}:";ul{e.backtrace.each{|bt|li(bt)}}}.to_s)end end;self;end;class<<
self;def goes m;eval S.gsub(/Camping/,m.to_s).gsub("A\pps=[]","Cam\ping::Apps<<\
self"),TOPLEVEL_BINDING;end;def escape s;s.to_s.gsub(/[^ \w.-]+/n){'%'+($&.
unpack('H2'*$&.size)*'%').upcase}.tr(' ','+')end;def un s;s.tr('+',' ').gsub(
/%([\da-f]{2})/in){[$1].pack('H*')}end;def qsp q,d='&;',y=nil,z=H[];m=proc{|_,o,n|o.u(
n,&m)rescue([*o]<<n)};q.to_s.split(/[#{d}] */n).inject((b,z=z,H[])[0]){|h,p|k,v=un(p).
split('=',2);h.u k.split(/[\]\[]+/).reverse.inject(y||v){|x,i|H[i,x]},&m}end;def
kp s;c=qsp(s,';,')end;def run r=$stdin,e=ENV;X.M;k,a=X.D un("/#{e[
'PATH_INFO']}".gsub(/\/+/,'/'));k.new(r,e,(m=e['REQUEST_METHOD']||"GET")).Y.
service *a;rescue Object=>x;X::ServerError.new(r,e,'get').service(k,m,x)end
def method_missing m,c,*a;X.M;k=X.const_get(c).new(StringIO.new,H['HTTP_HOST',
'','SCRIPT_NAME','','HTTP_COOKIE',''],m.to_s);H.new(a.pop).each{|e,f|k.send(
"#{e}=",f)}if Hash===a[-1];k.service *a;end;end;module Views;include X,Helpers
end;module Models;autoload:Base,'camping/db';def Y;self;end;end;class Mab<
Markaby::Builder;include Views;def tag!*g,&b;h=g[-1];[:href,:action,:src].map{
|a|(h[a]=self/h[a])rescue 0};super end end;H=HashWithIndifferentAccess;class H
def method_missing m,*a;m.to_s=~/=$/?self[$`]=a[0]:a==[]?self[m]:raise(
NoMethodError,"#{m}")end;alias_method:u,:regular_update;end end

More recently:

• Dream Ledger, a campsite for journaling yr sleep time.
• An introduction to Camping by Eric Mill.
• Feedchamp, an rss aggregator in Camping.

Update: If all of you can get out your copy of the Camping core team’s group picture, Indian Chief Skittles McQueeny has just sent me the following legend:

1. Ranger Jake (holding a lizard)
2. Tiffany Rabbitsapple
3. (a non-notable prince)
4. why the lucky stiff
5. Spud Webb (the same)
6. Indian Chief Skittles McQueeny
7. Mrs. Rummly
8. Jonas Pfenniger
9. Oarsman C. S. “Celery Shirt” Acornson
10. Camera Nap
11. Helps the Janitor (holding a soccer ball under his poncho)

Update from Air Force Staff Sargeant Guds Mandragon:

We try to keep a lid on it, but some pilot folklore has infiltrated our ranks. The tale goes that if you eject from your plane on Camping’s birthday that you will be visited in the night by a red fairy who will grant you a free batch of caramel apples, answering to any quantity you provide. In some permutations of the rumor, she grants an infinite quantity. Four aircraft have been ditched, two have struck earth, one crushing a cereal factory. I am told Grape Nuts. Please dispell this rumor forthrighly.

Hmm, interesing stuff. Thanks, Guds!

Update:

Update: The latest Camping trunk lets you add a query string to your routes by adding a Hash argument.

 >> a "version 2", :href => R(Show, page.title, :version => 2)
 => "<a href='/wiki/title?version=2'>version 2</a>"