At our company, Helius, Inc, we made the choice to use OpenLaszlo for all new rich media interfaces. However, we also made the decision to use Rails for our backend. We send xml using rxml files in rails to the laszlo interface.
We looked at the 2 projects underway, but they were moving too slow and were too limited in what they offered, so we wrote our own Rails backend code. It works well as we use the model and controllers from Rails, and OpenLaszlo for our view. We are quite pleased with the results. On 1/30/07 10:57 AM, "Rich Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently attended a talk by Peter Thoeny (the author of > TWiki), in which he had some interesting things to say > about how to introduce new technology into companies. > > Roughly, he said that the first thing you have to do is > reduce the pain that folks are currently feeling. Once > this is done, you can start talking with them about new > features, etc. > > This matches my perceptions, but I think it also offers > an insight into the reason that Rails has attracted so > much more attention than Laszlo (despite Laszlo's cool > capabilities). > > Rails claims to remove the pain of creating DB-backed > web sites. This is a common task for web programmers > and the existing tools are pretty awful. So, the offer > of an alternative is compelling. > > Laszlo, in contrast, promises to let programmers create > web applications with snazzy new features. As much as > folks might like to do this, they may be too busy with > mundane problems to give it a chance. > > > However, Laszlo and Rails are both being used to create > Ajax-based web sites. So, the differences may be more > apparent than real. If Laszlo can demonstrate that it > saves developers real effort in creating these sites, I > think it has a chance to win some mindshare. > > "Laszlo on Rails" and the "OpenLaszlo Rails plugin" are > both aimed at getting Rails developers to use Laszlo as > a way to do Ajax. However, these efforts don't seem to > be getting much attention in the Rails community. > > Unfortunately, I don't have any clear answers to offer. > I'd like to see more compelling demos, particularly if > they combine Rails and Laszlo technology. Does anyone > have anything else to suggest? > > -r -- Bruce Kolste Helius, Inc. 801-764-9020 www.helius.com
