Rails module ideas...

[Hal Fulton]

I talked with a person recently who was looking into using
Rails for a new site... he abandoned the idea (for now) with
these comments:

I have spent the last few days looking at OpenACS. It uses aolserver and
tcl which would absolutely not be my first choice but it seems to do
everything I need. Also it is used by photo.net which is somewhat
reassuring.

I guess that one day rails will be used to build a similar framework and
I look forward to switching. It appears that currently though, I would
need to build a solution from a bunch of disparate rails apps and that
it would take me forever just to get the db schema sorted out. OpenACS
has a blog, faq, forums etc. all ready to go.

I knew if I quoted that here, it would light a fire under some people.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to create a suite of interoperable themable
mini-apps like this. Anything like this in the works?

By "themable" I mean: It should be easy to create a common look-and-feel
in terms of graphics, etc. I suppose the use of templates and CSS already
covers most if not all of this. I haven't thought it through.

By "interoperable" I'm not sure what the Hal I mean.


Cheers,
Hal

 

[Andrew Stone]

It wouldn't be a bad idea to create a suite of interoperable themable

mini-apps like this. Anything like this in the works?
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By "themable" I mean: It should be easy to create a common look-and-feel
in terms of graphics, etc. I suppose the use of templates and CSS already
covers most if not all of this. I haven't thought it through.
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If I understand correctly, this is the exact sort of thing I'm working
on. Unfortunately, it's not an open source project. It's going to
contain a set of partials (? - still working out the details) such as
calendar, message board, etc... that will be available for each
client. The client will be able to use these partials (or not) in
their site. Of course there will be a system created for generating
custom headers/footers and entire pages along with a system for
managing fonts,colors,etc..(basically a css editor (for technically
challenged people) is what I have in mind at the moment).

Being that the other partials are very particular to my client, I
would be willing to open source a similar app containing the some of
the generic partials I will be creating. I would, of course, have to
get the client to agree on this, but I don't see where there would be
an issue. We have already discussed my affinity for open source and
this possibility.

As of now, I plan on completing his app by July 1st. This is a
secondary job for me, so I don't get to spend as much time as I would
like on this project.


-andy
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Andrew Stone

 

[Tobias Luetke]

Different people, different requirements different frameworks.

However i understand that many of OpenACS devs are actually using
rails now and that the rails community gets a study stream of OpenACS
users. Could be nothing though...

I talked with a person recently who was looking into using
Rails for a new site... he abandoned the idea (for now) with
these comments:
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I knew if I quoted that here, it would light a fire under some people.
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It wouldn't be a bad idea to create a suite of interoperable themable
mini-apps like this. Anything like this in the works?
=20
By "themable" I mean: It should be easy to create a common look-and-feel
in terms of graphics, etc. I suppose the use of templates and CSS already
covers most if not all of this. I haven't thought it through.
=20
By "interoperable" I'm not sure what the Hal I mean.
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Cheers,
Hal
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Tobi
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