Cool, yes, but my initial enthusiasm about Flex UI development several months ago waned when I realized it would be difficult to do in TDD/BDD style.
Al On Dec 5, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Owen Dall <[email protected]> wrote: Yes. very cool. Hope you had a great vacation. Back just in time to finish you Tutorial. I need it ASAP! : -) Thanks, Owen On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Kristian <[email protected]> wrote: > Back from conferences and vacation in Egypt, powered up with new > energy and new knowledge... > Just reading a new book I bought: "Flex on Rails", WOW! > What an eye-opener! Reminds me of when I discovered Ruby and Rails, > yet another game changer. > > The Flex demos I watched at the Devoxx conference made a huge > impression, which led me to buy the book. Seems like HTML/Javascript > is just such a cumbersome way to develop web applications, even with > fancy Ajax components and frameworks such as ExtJS - much like > developing apps in Java 1.2 compared to Rails. The HTML, Javascript, > erb style has hardly changed since the mid 90s and is just so complex > with all these layers. > > I would much rather develop my front end in something like Flex, which > allows for defining the views using widgets in XML, with native data > binding, fast and efficient data transfer protocols etc. > > So I think Hobo (and DRYML) really should be much more agnostic as to > the choice of front end/view/client of the client app. There is also > all the mobile devices, fx Android, iPhone etc. coming on to the > scene. The "old" uni-polar world of HTML in web browser which Rails > was born in is rapidly changing into a multi-polar world... hmm, > reminds me of something on a completely different level. > > Check out the RestfulX framework at http://restfulx.github.com/. Maybe > we could join forces here. > I really think DRYML should be just be a template language and not so > tightly bound to Rails/Hobo, but just have some nice add-on options > for such integrations. > > I guess DRYML could even generate some nice Flex views to use as a > base and Hobo could be extended to perhaps enhance the XML data (by > calling a REST service) consumed by a Flex app to include permission > info as to which actions should be permitted in the Flex app, and then > have some conventions for how to apply this info on the controls. > > http://blog.flexonrails.com/ > > > http://www.flex888.com/358/10-flex-and-ruby-on-rails-integration-examples.html > > > > > -- > > 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]<hobousers%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > > -- Thanks, Owen Owen Dall Barquin International 410-991-0811 -- 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. -- 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.
