Josh, I maintain rails apps with standard html erb views and full blown ExtJS. Certainly, using standard rails views gives flexibility and utilizes all the fancy rails view features.
If you can overcome the hurdle of integrating ExtJS or Dojo, it makes it quicker to do certain features like grid filtering/sorting/pagination etc as all these features come for free with the package. Since our Rails ExtJS app fully uses Javascript on the client the heaviness isn't so bad. One of the turn offs for rails developers using ExtJS is figuring out the best way to integrate it. There has been a recent blog on the ExtJS web site promoting the extjs-mvc gem that from what I have seen to be the best attempt to integrate ExtJS with rails. I personally wouldn't bother writing my own widget as there are plenty of other packages that will solve most of my problems. Ultimately you need to choose the right look and feel for the type of application. I think rails developers should be open about using a range of different packages as it will only create a better outcome for the Client. Our Client is really impressed with the ExtJS app and have no problems showing it off. Brian. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua Partogi Sent: Thursday, 1 October 2009 10:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [rails-oceania] Re: Why does your rails apps does not use javascript widgets Thanks for the insights Ben. Very interesting, because the Java community seems to prefer using pre-made widgets, perhaps Java is already complex enough for them to spend time creating their own widgets. :p Do you reckon you spend more time whereas if you use pre-made widgets? Is the time creating your own widgets worth it though? On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ben Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Josh, > > Dojo (and friends) widgets are often HEAVY. > jQuery feels like an extension to the DOM, adding a plugin here or > there to add functionality feels less wrong. > I generally prefer to write my own though. -- Certified Scrum Master Post agile jobs for free: http://jobs.scrum8.com This email is intended for the use of the individual or entity it is addressed to and may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged, commercially sensitive, or protected by copyright. If it contains financial product advice, the advice is of a general nature and you will need to determine how appropriate it is for you. If you are not the intended recipient you must not disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message. While this mail and any attachments have been scanned for common computer viruses and found to be virus free, we recommend that you perform your own virus checks before opening any attachments. ______________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scrubbed for your protection by SMX. For more information visit http://smx.co.nz ______________________________________________________________________________ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
