Robert Citek wrote: > > I'm really liking MediaWiki. Hmmm, make be a Knoppix remaster with > MediaWiki pre-installed. ;) > > On that note, this month's Advanced LUG will be a repeat. We are going to create a Wiki using Ruby on Rails, AJAX and Rinda. From scratch. Should take about 30-45 minutes. The on-line video does more than this in 15 minutes. But I am slower, and they are using Mac OS/X. :(
Ruby is an advanced O-O scripting language. Rails is a web application framework built on Ruby. AJAX is the stuff GMail and Google maps uses. So in our wiki, things like the Preview button work w/o doing a page refresh. Also true of the edit button. Rinda is Ruby's take on the Linda programming language. Actually it is an implementation of Tuplespaces on Distrbuted Ruby. This will be our wiki's persistance mechanism. A wiki w/o a DB! Skeptical? Can I do this in under an hour? Come out and see. Monday, 6:30 - 9:00 Brentwood BreadCo. Actually, it is the elegance of the Ruby language and well thought out design of Rails that makes it possible. No real thought other than your app. And you will be up and running on Rails with little or no Ruby or other web application experience. It might help to know a little Perl, or Python or shell scripts beforehand. Ed -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
