From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-05-14T00:00:27+09:00
Subject: Rails module ideas...

I talked with a person recently who was looking into using
Rails for a new site... he abandoned the idea (for now) with
these comments:

 > I have spent the last few days looking at OpenACS. It uses aolserver and
 > tcl which would absolutely not be my first choice but it seems to do
 > everything I need. Also it is used by photo.net which is somewhat
 > reassuring.
 >
 > I guess that one day rails will be used to build a similar framework and
 > I look forward to switching. It appears that currently though, I would
 > need to build a solution from a bunch of disparate rails apps and that
 > it would take me forever just to get the db schema sorted out. OpenACS
 > has a blog, faq, forums etc. all ready to go.


I knew if I quoted that here, it would light a fire under some people. ;)

It wouldn't be a bad idea to create a suite of interoperable themable
mini-apps like this. Anything like this in the works?

By "themable" I mean: It should be easy to create a common look-and-feel
in terms of graphics, etc. I suppose the use of templates and CSS already
covers most if not all of this. I haven't thought it through.

By "interoperable" I'm not sure what the Hal I mean.  ;)


Cheers,
Hal