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On 10/7/06, Ceefour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Mislav Marohnic wrote:
> > Dreamweaver is configurable by its somewhat obscure XML files. I think by
> > hacking a few lines in those you can make .rhtml behave like anything you
> > want.
> >
> > The only question is - why? Those templates are not complete until parsed by
> > eruby. Pretty WYSIWYG will be broken, so no benefit from that. Dreamweaver
> > templates are its own "templating system"  it's only useful for static
> > websites. Libraries, assets - what good are those? You can have your
> > macros/snippets/whatever in your favorite text editor.
>
> I guess you're right, Mislav. I guess I'm typing 90% of the time rather
> than click-and-drag even with Dreamweaver. But from my experience with
> templates (PHP, Smarty, my own) most of these are
> Dreamweaver-WYSIWYG-able. And it helps a lot especially when designing
> layouts not templates (especially if the layout doesn't contain too
> many dynamic elements and only have the single dynamic element that is
> the body of the page).
>
> > Sure RadRails/Aptana are much better, especially when your platform of
> > choice is Linux. You can have an embedded browser inside RadRails while
> > writing templates. After all, WYSIWYG never could beat hand-coding your
> > templates and previewing the result in real web browsers.
> You're right. If only previewing wasn't really *that* slow.
>
> I need some opinions... what's the fastest development setup for Rails
> (not production) usable in Ubuntu (Linux kernel 2.6)? (I will switch
> from WinXP SP2 to Ubuntu within the next week), is it:
> - Apache2 + FastCGI
> - WEBrick?
> - Lighttpd + FastCGI
> - Mongrel (?) -- I'm not familiar at all with mongrel or even how it
> works.
> Anyway my system is AMD Sempron 2600 with 512 MB of RAM (which
> sometimes will be used partially with Windows XP SP2 in VMware, I give
> it 224 MB).
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> >
>


-- 
Kevin Clark
http://glu.ttono.us

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