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    Converting other newLISP code to Rockets


    Post #: 85
    Post type: Blog post
    Date: 2013-02-21 18:54:17.000
    Author: Rocket Man

    Today I relaunched my personal website at http://www.jeremyreimer.com. It had previously been running on Dragonfly, a web development framework that inspired me to write Rockets.

    Converting the code was really easy. All it took was the following:

    1. Replace all instances of (print) with (display) and (println) with (displayln)
    2. Remove Dragonfly-specific functions like (web-root) that are no longer necessary.
    3. Make sure to start each page with:


    #!/usr/bin/env newlisp

    (load "newlisp-rockets.lisp") ; this is where the magic happens!


    and end each page with


    (display-footer "Jeremy Reimer")
    (display-page)


    And that's pretty much it! So if you want to convert any Dragonfly code to Rockets, that's how you do it.


    Rocket Man on 2013-02-21 19:07:41.000

    Oh, there are some other changes:

    Remove all <% and %> tags

    (Response:redirect) becomes (page-redirect)
    (Response:cookie) becomes either (set-cookie) or (delete-cookie)

    But these are pretty minor changes.

    xerxes on 2013-02-22 14:10:48.000

    I never actually got my Dragonfly site going: too much else on the go.

    But it interests me now to think how mystified I was by Dragonfly. I realise now that it was the html/css etc web writing side more than the newLISP that bewildered me, and although I admired the use of a cgi "listener", I could never quite grok how it worked. Looking at the above reinforces the conclusion... actual newLISP changes are minimal.
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