From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-06-28T22:33:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Revenge of CookbooXUL: Another XUL + Rails Thingy

Impressive!

Curt

Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm finally done tinkering and messing with my latest rendition of
> CookbooXUL.  Feel free to read all about it at:
> 
> http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/cookbooxul/
> 
> It comes with available code, which will work once you install Rails and
> Ruby/Odeum from my site as well.  You'll also have to download recipes
> and such to get it all up on your own.  It's released LGPL for now.
> 
> The neat things about this are:
> 
> 1. Uses a very thin Rails backend with a thick XUL/XPFE frontend.
> 2. Client is controlled by a little Finite State Machine framework I
> wrote that simplifies the application logic.
> 3. It's completely asynchronous, which is easy to do with the FSM.
> 4. The FSM framework includes lots of goodies for working with the DOM,
> pasting in XSLT, and doing asynch XmlHttpRequests.
> 5. The backend actually passes back events to the client using a special
> HTTP header (X-AppState).
> 6. It includes the same 10,000 recipes.
> 7. It demonstrates modifying the XUL interface using an XSLT based on a
> response.
> 8. Demonstrates doing a timer 'tick' to work the UI while waiting for
> something.
> 9. There's a demo available at http://zedsucks.dhs.org:8000/recipes/
> (also mentioned in the article).  This is up as long as I can keep it
> without pissing off my ISP.
> 
> I fixed a ton of bugs, but I'm sure there's more.  Feel free to send
> them my way as well as comments.  Hopefully the article is detailed
> enough to get you started, but not so detailed that you don't have fun
> figuring it out.
> 
> Zed
> 
> 
>