Merb <3 MacRuby During RubyConf, Laurent, Yehuda, Rich and myself were talking about how to work closer.
We were thinking about maybe running Merb on MacRuby so we could introspect a dev app and see what's going on. A bit like the iPhone dev tools. We are also looking at simpler MacRuby apps such as Merb News, Merb Doc but also integration with merb-messenger (feature being developed and offering communcation via jabber/growl/email/other protocol between a running app and one or many clients). Anyway, my point is that I totally agree with you ;) -Matt On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Rich Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO, MacRuby and Merb are two of the most interesting current > developments in the Ruby arena. Because I've been looking at > both of them, I started noticing some similarities, including: > > * Focus on design and engineering > > In an age of "cowboy programming", I find it refreshing to > see that some programming projects actually embrace design > and engineering. > > * large, well-documented APIs > > In a community dominated by a web framework (Rails) that > has no defined API, I think this is quite noteworthy. > > * MVC-based UI frameworks > > Both MacRuby and Merb can both be used for purposes other > than interactive UI development (eg, batch-mode applications, > web services). However, their focus is on UI and both use an > MVC-based approach (though the specifics vary markedly). > > > Anyway, I started wondering whether any parts of Merb might be > useful for MacRuby to consider adopting. For example: > > * Merb, like Rails, defines conventions for directory layout. > Would it make sense for MacRuby to have similar conventions? > > * Merb stresses modularity very strongly, using gems to add > "plugins", "slices", etc. What kinds of modularity should > we encourage for MacRuby, HotCocoa, etc? > > * Some of Merb's plugins add functionality (eg, DataMapper) > which might be useful in a MacRuby application. Would it > be useful for MacRuby to be able to use Merb plugins? > > Comments solicited... > > -r > -- > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 > > Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >
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