It's great news for anyone using Rails. Providing plugin writers stick to the API it should solve a lot of the upgrade issues people have been having, and should stop people calling Rails a "totally failed platform" (which I thought was a bit over the top :)
The performance improvements should be huge and I'm really looking forward to them. At the moment Hobo has the same issues with modularity that Rails has, in that it makes it quite hard if you want to use alternatives. I'm hoping that as Rails becomes more modular it will force Hobo to do the same. For example Hobo Fields is essentially an extension to Active Record, but it should be possible to use all of Hobo apart from the Active Record extensions with another ORM like DataMapper. At the other end of the stack it should be possible to swap out Prototype/Scriptaculous for a different JS library like jQuery. Someone would have to want it enough to port and maintain a jQuery compatible version of hobo-rapid.js, but the problem is made much more difficult because Hobo has a load of inline javascript in the tags in the same way that Rails has inline javascript in its helpers. If Rails is removing all this inline javascript then I'd hope that we would do the same in Hobo. On 23 Dec 2008, at 21:55, [email protected] wrote: > > Regarding: > > http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3 > > One of the key goals of the merge of Merb into Rails 3 is greater > modularity - the example given is an option to use an ORM other than > ActiveRecord. > > I wonder of this will create new opportunities to integrate Hobo > features more smoothly into Rails. > > Eager to hear any thoughts, excited about the possibilities. > > Paul > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
