Along the lines of the recent thread, "Merb and JQuery ?", I'm curious whether anyone's looking into using Merb with RubyJS. A recent Advogato article provides some background and motivation:
Blurring of MVC lines: Programming the Web Browser. http://advogato.org/article/993.html As I read it, the article says that: - Most current Ajaxish solutions break the MVC paradigm. - It would be nice to be able to write applications using a single procedural language (other than JavaScript :-). - cross-compilers such as RubyJS offer some possibilities, particularly when assisted by client/server markup in the source code. My take is that the author is onto some real problems and that cross-compilers could indeed be a useful part of the solution. However, I'm not certain what a comprehensive fix would involve. Frameworks such as Merb and Rails handle HTML views pretty well. jQuery washes a lot of laundry for simple client-server designs. Unfortunately, our frameworks run out of steam when it comes to encapsulating heavy-duty client-server patterns. So, I'm hoping that some bright people figure out the patterns and create frameworks that deal nicely with issues like client/ server state maintenance, distributed business rules, etc. In the meanwhile, RubyJS looks like useful infrastructure. I'd be interested in any comments about the problem space, possible solutions, etc. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. 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/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
