Picombo

Just some thoughts. Some core ideas of a good strong framework

• Easy but powerful routing support
• Database
• Caching out of the box - automatic caching for views, database caching
• A framework backed auth system - I know this breaks a lot of rules. Namely if there is a bug in it. But a lack of an auth system or a default auth system or an easy to implement vanilla auth system hurts many projects
• Extensible views - ability to use erb or vendor libraries
• Play nicely with external libraries
• Out of the box AJAX support - helper libraries. In my opinion I'm all for jQuery or Moo or any lightweight ajax framework. Maybe remain agnostic? Library -> driver type implementation?
• Autoloading and smart directory structure -> already implemented. Nothing is worse than config settings all over the place
• Testing out of the box and supported
• Strong debugging support
• Develop interface classes instead of rewriting the wheel.
• Don't make me think attitude

Thoughts for making a framework popular

• Of course being used in a well known app, site
• Community backed theme like a background pic or a textmate them or something.
• Collection of snippets for use with the framework
• Visible list of developers
• Editor specific tuts

• Tabs not spaces - breaking ruby rules
• Minimal use of complex ruby structures
• Heavy use of the interface -> driver structure

Please don't be afraid to criticize!