From: Tobias Luetke <tobias.luetke@...>
Date: 2005-05-14T00:36:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails module ideas...

Different people, different requirements different frameworks.

However i understand that many of OpenACS devs are actually using
rails now and that the rails community gets a study stream of OpenACS
users. Could be nothing though...

On 5/13/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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