> Mine waned when I realized the results would be running in the Flash > plugin, quite possibly the most godawful-bad piece of software on OS > X. :) >
Please explain why you think it is awful, especially on MacOS X? Seems to me one BIG advantage is that all the browser compatibility issues go away. Flash 9 is on +95% of all computers. > The biggest downside of the YAML model definition, to me, is that > YAML's not Ruby. The association macros in Rails are incredibly > powerful, vs. the very simple ones supported in YAML. It's a common > problem when trying to interchange model representation across a > limited medium. > As I understand it, the YAML definition model in RestfulX, is simply translated into migrations. I guess you could apply a diff on each edit to figure out which new migrations to generate, much like the current Hobo approach. But I like the fact that the complete model is centralized and can be edited from there. Hard to get an overview of the model relationships otherwise. I was thinking it could be a nice way to generate updates to the model .rb files from a central YAML file (the fields section), so keeping the Ruby model representation... Datamapper ORM also has fields in the model... so could be one YAML model for several ORM-like approaches. Or just generate the YAML from the schema for an easy overview using a rake task!? > The idea of extending Hobo to make it more frontend-agnostic is > interesting, but I'm not clear how useful it actually will be in > practice. I know that the last time I went spelunking in the DRYML > parser, I thought I was going to be eaten by a grue.. ;) > Read my DRYML chapter in the Hobo book. I think I got a pretty good understanding of how it works by now. No reason to go into the DRYML parser as I see it, that works just fine. I will refator the DRYML engine to be more frontend-agnostic and not hardcoded to nested concats, when I get the time (this week perhaps!) > Ultimately it will come down to necessity - if somebody gets a client > who's hell-bent on a Flex app and Hobo (no idea how that would happen, > but anyway...), then it will likely be built. Otherwise, not so much... > I will give it a try after New Year. My goals: ExtJS, Flex, PDF. > --Matt Jones -- 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.
