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<FromGitter> <Brodan> How to I tell `amber watch` to use development settings instead of test?
<FromGitter> <Brodan> i don't see a flag for it in the help
<FromGitter> <wout> @eliasjpr Absolutely, benchmarks need to be taken with a pinch of salt. They do not influence my choice, I was rather researching the numbers before convincing a client to go with Crystal.
<FromGitter> <wout> This project is heavy on the database, so that's where the improvements will lie.
<FromGitter> <damianham> @andrewc910 as for a roadmap one of the things we have discussed adding to Amber is plugins. We discussed it on one of the issues or PRs (can't recall where ATM). Recipes added a useful feature to Amber in that you can choose to create an Amber application from a recipe so you are not limited to the default application format that is embedded in Amber. Plugins would be the next stage to really empower Amber apps
<FromGitter> ... by adding features like a e.g. a calendar, blog, paypal, swipe or twitter etc. via a plugin with one command line e.g. amber plugin add ambercommunity/calendar (from a github repo) and then you would get all the features of the plugin with routes added to the route map, and also controllers, models, views and migrati ... [https://gitter.im/amberframework/amber?at=5e4baf170d257250fdf32a3f]
<FromGitter> <eliasjpr> @Brodan set your Amber env to development
<FromGitter> <andrewc910> @damianham I have never worked with plugins in any language. How do they differ from libs made for a specific framework? An example could be one of the many gems made specifically rails?
<FromGitter> <andrewc910> How would such a system be implemented?