On 6 October 2010 10:49, Daryl Moulder <[email protected]> wrote: > I should add that they are looking for a drag and drop GUI builder.
There is no such for Rails (at least not that I am aware of). You need to convince the team that they don't need it and just use a text editor (or at most Ruby IDE). If the convincing is impossible then (unfortunately) maybe the Rails is not the right tool for the job. Thare are so many reasons why Rails has no Drag&Drop UI builders and all of them are very good ones indeed. Abstraction from the HTTP, building UI with D&D broughtto the world ASP.NETWebForms. It made people struggle for many years (but they did have the UI D&D!). Then, even Microsoft realised that maybe it is not the best way to go and released ASP.NET MVC (Rails parody for .NET). The most important thing you will need from your editor/IDE is probably easy navigation and switching between files. I personally used GEdit and now jumped into Vim which I find very pleasing. Long story short - just use TextMate if you can. It really gives you all the necessary tools. Additionally most of the things in Rails will require you to use the Terminal/Command Line. And the developers who do that are rarely very comfortable with Drag&Drop. And vise-versa. If the team comes from the Delphi you might have a look at the Rails IDE from the company that produces Delphi: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/3rdrail But generally, if you really want to do Rails development - TextMate is probably the best "IDE". Cheers, Dima. http://ApproachE.com > Sent from my iPad > > On 06/10/2010, at 10:25 AM, Daryl Moulder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I managed to convince my client that Ruby on Rails was a good way to go > for a particular project. This is great as it will enable me to build up a > commercial portfolio. > > > > One issue though is they come from a Delphi background and would like > some kind of RAD environment. I have pointed out the Ruby in Steel Visual > Studio plugin. > > > > Does anyone else know of any gui builder type environments for Rails? > > > > I'm hoping to work mainly in Textmate in OS X and then get it working > with a gui builder so that they can see the interface more clearly. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > > > Daryl > > -- > 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]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- 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.
