Rails
Fri, 2008-09-05 17:15 — john
There's been some good discussion about what should and should not be in a framework, which components should be required and which should be optional, etc.
Of course the blueprint for this framework is OERA, but I believe that what's missing from this discussion is an example implementation of a modern Rapid Application Development framework.
To really kick things off, this initiative could take a lot from the wild success of Ruby on Rails. That framework has been heavily borrowed from for other frameworks (two examples are PHP On TRAX and Grails for Groovy).
A fruitful approach would be to take Rails, OpenEdgify it as the starting (working!) framework, and build on top of that to match the OERA blueprint.
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I think the development
I think the development environment is certainly an interesting topic, but one that is hopefully separable from the framework itself. Myself, I looking to MDA
Great Idea! I've also
Great Idea!
I've also brought it up @peg or progresstalk.com
BTW could you recommend a rails book. The framework not ruby the language.
Cheers.
Look ma, no code!
Instead of trying to re-implement the Rails framework in ABL for OERA, what if the .Net framework has OERA compatible components that we could re-use (not re-implement) in 10.2A?
I started a different thread on this: "OERA from .Net?"
Re: Rails
I can't recommend any particular Rails book, sorry. I've never read one. Anybody else?
I can recommend http://safari.oreilly.com/ . They have 19 books with 'rails' in the title.
Actually, I do have a Ruby
Actually, I do have a Ruby book, and Rails book and their both from Oreilly. But they're also both just on Ruby. Nothing much about Rails, frameworks, patterns etc.
I order about 2 books almost every month (notice I didn't say read 2 books every month :)) and it's actually very hard to find good books. Written by people with real experience and insights and that are also clear and make for an easy read. Finding a good book can easily replace 6 other books on the same subject.
I like "for Dummies" far more then Oreilly (in most cases. Oreilly books tend to be very dry), "Missing Manuals" series are also very good but there are lots of exceptional books that stand out on their own. The worst ones so far are the Progress Docs :) (it's even clearer now that I have employees that use the docs to learn). I'm always looking for book recommendations. Let's start a book corner :)
Book Corner
I created a Book Corner group/forum. :-)
www.oehive.org/node/1328
Be sure to subscribe to the Group (look for the 'join' link in the right-hand column), and let's move any more replies to this discussion (books about Rails) to that Forum.