I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but given the web-inspired
nature of shoes, might it make more sense to go REST?
Could probably use ActiveResource from Rails inside shoes and maybe
Camping on the server. REST and MVC aren't only for databases after all.
Sorry if this wasn't what you were after, but I've found the active
resource pattern to be just the ticket when doing UI work for complex
web apps.
Collin Miller
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On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:24 PM, "Bluebie, Jenna"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Heya guys. Some of you know that i've written a nifty little rpc
doodad over the last few days called Legs (yeah, i'm soooo
creative...). So, here's what i've got to work with:
I can define a class, put public methods in it.
And, I can create an object, and when I call a method on that
object, it marshals it all up in a warm gooey JSON wrapping and
flies off through the internet to the server, which also has a class
with a bunch of methods in it, calls the method, the response comes
back down the wire.. Super duper magical nifty rpc thingo makes it
like i'm calling an instance of the class on the server, but
remotely. I can also do Notification calls which require no
response, and asynchronous ajax style calls that pass the response
off to a block when it gets back.
And the app I want to build (in time for shoes day, no less) is a
simple replication of IRC, so sure, I can make some requests, get a
list of available channels, join, part channels... but then what?
How do I make this class that exists outside of the scope of the
Shoes.app, to update shoes when events happen? Should I try to build
some kind of a thing where the Legs class thingo tries to maintain
an object representing the server state and then the Shoes UI
somehow subscribes to the object and completely refreshes itself
when the object changes? Could I do that with Observable from the
standard library? does it have any ability to automatically make
stuff like hashes observable or would I need to reinvent the hash,
the array, the string, all to have observable functionality to make
that work?
Gosh it'd be nice if Shoes could somehow one day do Flex-style
bindings and automatically work with stuff like this.
