Rails strikes me as a practical framework. Not only does it solve everyday problems that people have, but the best way to start a conversation seems to be to demonstrate, with actual working code (possibly gemmed or forked as necessary), why something is needed, rather than just discussing theory. I find many other frameworks aggravating when they are so bloated with solving theoretical problems that it just so turned out that nobody really needed after all, whereas Rails is a breath of fresh air when it comes to this practicality.
People do use javascript frameworks with Rails, I know because I and my co-workers use Angular and Ember both with it. And we like it a lot, and their use is becoming more and more extensive with each project. Could Rails in general fall off in use due to them? well, maybe someday... but in practical terms, there's still too much unique-to-each-app server side stuff that needs to happen for me to envision that happening any time soon. There's that word again, practicality. This is the opposite of theory. Gary, if you change your approach to a more practical demonstration than just theory, I think you'll find better receptivity. This means: you, write a simultaneous-multiuser-updating demo site that needs/uses json patch, fork or gem whatever framework you need to make it happen. Your work and/or ideas will surely get folded into their respective frameworks (like rails and angular) once people see the practical benefit through working code. Since I've used such javascript frameworks with rails, I can kind of see the point of json patch in theory, but I'm not fully convinced until I try it. And I don't have the time to write such a demo site today to experiment and see. Let he with the most enthusiasm for it be the first to do so (and if nobody does, then I guess it wasn't needed enough.. yet). Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/65_0iUprVpAJ. 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/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
