[LRUG] Rocktober

Tim Cowlishaw tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk
Thu Sep 27 03:58:35 PDT 2007


Would anyone be interested in seeing an interesting, OO approach to
widget-based UI development in Rails? I can try and cajole one of my
colleagues into showing something off if so...

Cheers!


Tim


On 9/27/07, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, Alex MacCaw knows a thing or two about Flex+Rails and I'm going to
> schmooze him into showing it off for us at some future meeting, (that's a
> pre-warning for you Alex ;)
>
> Is there anything else people want to hear about?  Or even ideas for
> alternative style evenings that people might want to attend (lightning
> talks, no-agenda reject conf style, hack-days, etc...).
>
> I know a bunch of LRUGers were at Railsconf, and a few even presented,
> might one or two of you want to re-run your talks for us?  Or the guys who
> have been representing LRUG at extra-curricular meetings recently, maybe
> you'd  like to re-run your talks for us.
>
> The main point of this mail tho is that I'm struggling to cajole folk into
> doing something for the October meeting.  As I said, there's Ian lined up
> with resources_controller, but that still leaves a hole in the evening.  As
> Tom Armitage said in his talk last month, it's not hard to play with
> something over a weekend or two and present your findings as a 'hey, this
> was neat, what do you think?' style talk.
>
> Muz
>
> On 19/09/2007, Paul Ardeleanu <pardel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 19/09/2007, Daniel Tenner <daniel.ruby at tenner.org> wrote:
> > > I for one would be very keen on hearing if anyone's used Flex and
> > > Rails together, and what sort of hurdles they hit on the way, what
> > > appeared simple at first but turned out to be THE headache of the
> > > month....
> >
> > The Simeon Bateman presentation (today) was pretty good although kind
> > of an introduction in Flex + Rails but, unfortunately, the Monday
> > tutorial sucked... big time.
> >
> > > Superficially, they seem (to me) like a match made in heaven - Rails
> > > takes care of all the server stuff really nicely and Flex has a full
> > > UI toolkit that talks to the backend through whatever means you want.
> > > But as usual, I'm sure the devil is in the details.
> >
> > Simeon seems to prefer RubyAMB over WebORB.
> >
> > Paul
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