[Rails] Spring-rich killer: rails rich-client proposal

[David Mitchell]

Unfortunately rbxpcom seems to have died - there's been no updates for
4 1/2 years, and it's stuck on version 0.0.4, which doesn't look that
promising.

Regards

Dave M.

On 01/02/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Build the front end with XUL runner
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner
>
> XULRunner is a single "gecko runtime" installable package that can be
> used to bootstrap multiple XUL+XPCOM applications that are as rich as
> Firefox and Thunderbird. It will provide mechanisms for installing,
> upgrading, and uninstalling these applications.
>
> Build the back end with RoR and WEBrick and run it on the local
> machine. Use HTTP to talk to it.
>
> The big advantage to XUL runner is that a year from now Firefox will
> be a XUL runner app too.  That means that anyone who is running
> Firefox will already have your GUI run-time installed.
>
> On 1/31/06, Joseph Graham <jgraham at majikoz.com> wrote:
> > It seems that a project like this could accomplish the following:
> > * Provide an abstract means to bind to one or more native GUI tookits
> > * Provide a data binding mechanism to link controllers to GUI events and
> > link model objects to fields and GUI widgets.
> > * Provide a stub to one or more reporting engines that would allow one to
> > send models from the GUI context to report templates.
> > * Provide a client-specific plugin capabilities that would allow people to
> > implement plugins to solve domain specific problems such as login and
> > authentication.
> > * Integration with a  deployment strategy such as JNLP or some native
> > installation mechanism (i.e. Super-pimp installer).
>
> You can already get all of this with XUL runner. Note that the
> components in XUL ( http://xulplanet.com/references/objref/ ) can be
> controlled by any language with XPCOM bindings. That includes C, C++,
> Javascript, Java, Python. You don't have to build everything with
> Javascript.
>
> You could even use Ruby to control XUL if someone wrote the XPCOM
> bindings for it. It's not very hard to do. It looks like someone has
> already started: http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at gmail.com
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