On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Publius Maximus <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bob, >> >>> Happy to help if you need any assistance learning either F# or Ruby, >> offline or [NF] if you think other folks here would be interested. >> Seems like Malcolm and a few others may be interested. >> >> I would be especially interested in hearing what you're doing with Ruby >> on the desktop and how you're deploying Ruby client applications. > > I use FXRuby as the GUI toolkit for any desktop applications I build > in Ruby. FXRuby is based on the FOX C++ toolkit. > > One of my "if I could find a sponsor" projects is to develop a > generator for Rails that will make it possible to build consistent UIs > (usually, admin consoles) for a Rails application that would use > standard web protocols (JSON over HTTP for example) to interact with a > Rails application and the database behind it, giving you a dual > web/desktop interface to the data model and business logic already > baked into the rails app. Kind of like how the built-in generate > creates html views. ------------------------------
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