Mauro,
I agree with you here. The OpenLaszlo community never was good at
connecting to start working on a better integration of frontend and
backend. Actually there was never enough support within the technical
management to build some solid RoR integration for OpenLaszlo -
something people have been asking. Some people thought, that the
approach of code generation doesn't provide enough value.
But if you connect with Sarah and Max, they might be interest in
working on such a module. I believe, that - if we'd manage to have
more on-sight meetings of community members - it would be possible to
hack a good integration module with 2-3 people on a weekend. Just to
get started, and then refine the gem. When I asked for a 5 years of
OpenLaszlo community meeting, there was neither enough interest at
Laszlo nor within the community to organize an event. In my eyes, the
value of OpenLaszlo as open source is greatly reduced by the fact that
people solve the same problem over and over in their own projects, not
committing anything back to a community open source project, e.g. good
RoR integration. Oliver Steele, Sarah Allen and Max Carlson have
already done some good work here, but we'd need more support to get
something going.
In the end that means: OpenLaszlo is a very expensive technology
compared to Flex: a lot more of the basic stuff needs to be coded. If
you use Flex 50% of what you need is already there. But that's just my
oppinion.
Best,
Raju
On Nov 8, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Mauro wrote:
2009/11/8 Raju Bitter <[email protected]>:
Oliver Steele built a Rails plugin in 2006, I think:
http://laszlo-plugin.rubyforge.org/
Sarah Allen has been doing some work to make it easy to embed
OpenLaszlo
applications in Rails views: http://github.com/ultrasaurus/openlaszlo_plugin
And Max Carlson has built some demos using Rails, he can tell you
more.
Sorry for my ignorance but I think openlaszlo is not very integrated
with rails.
Using laszlo plugin for example I see that I don't need models in
rails, it is like I've to program in laszlo only.
This gem http://wiki.github.com/dima/restfulx/restfulx-framework-and-rails-21
is much more integrated with rails, I can use rails models, I can use
rails validation, but it is for flex.
