[Rails] Resource Bundle Roundup

[David Mitchell]

Duane,

I kind of hesitate to suggest it, but how about considering TinyMCE? 
It's big, it doesn't work on some browsers (Safari?), but it's also
incredibly useful and probably the most advanced/robust/active tool of
its type around.


Regards

Dave M.

On 08/01/06, Duane Johnson <duane.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've recently made a first release of what I'm calling "bundled_resource"
> which is a plugin that makes our lives *much* easier when we need to use
> javascripts, stylesheets and images in conjunction with one another to
> deliver a special effect or tool on the client (browser) side.  If you
> missed the release, read about it on my blog at
> http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/01/07/easy-resource-management-re-post/.
>
> What I'd like to do now is make an appeal to each of you to tell me about or
> directly contribute to the project so that we can get the cream of all web
> tools out there in to this very concise and easy-to-use framework for add-on
> resources.  Generally, it takes very little effort to convert a javascript
> tool or CSS tool in to a bundled_resource.  Dynarch was the hardest so far,
> requiring 2 or 3 hours to integrate cleanly with Rails.  Most others take
> just a few minutes--Integrating lightbox is a good example of a 5-minute
> job.
>
> My vision for this project is that we will create a "resource bundle
> repository" that can be browsed for traditional or suggested solutions to
> common problems (e.g. sliders, javascript trees, menus, web form validation
> libraries, special effects like lightbox).  Once you find what you're
> looking for, a simple download to the bundles folder will be all it takes to
> get the new resource working for your app.
>
> There will undoubtedly be some difficulties and potentially some conflicts
> between all of these resources, but the more we work on it now, the easier
> it will be for all of us in this emerging 2.0 world.  Let's make everyone
> else jealous of Rails in a whole new way :)
>
> So far I have packaged and tested 4 bundles:
>  - Lightbox
> (http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/
>  - Dynarch Calendar
> (http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/)
>  - qForms
> (http://www.pengoworks.com/index.cfm?action=get:qforms)
>  - Textarea Tools
> (http://livsey.org/experiments/textareatools/)
>
> Others that I have in mind include:
>  - subModal Dialog
> (http://www.subimage.com/dhtml/subModal/)
>  - Multiple File Uploader
> (http://the-stickman.com/web-development/javascript/upload-multiple-files-with-a-single-file-element/)
>  - Javascript Tree (http://www.holoweb.net/laurie/jstree/)
>  - Tooltips (http://walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm)
>
> So the question is, what other invaluable cream-of-the-crop tools would you
> like to see as drop-in bundled resources for Rails?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Duane Johnson
> (canadaduane)
> http://blog.inquirylabs.com/
>
> P.S. The plugin is now available via subversion at
> svn://syncid.textdriven.com/svn/opensource/bundled_resource/trunk.
>  There are already some improvements to the documentation, one new bundle
> (lightbox), and a fix to the dynarch calendar.
>
>
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