From: Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>
Date: 2001-01-15T20:07:12+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9334] Very interested in your work

Hi Avi,

> If anyone is interested in using Ruby for web apps - I've been working on
> a fairly sophisticated Ruby-based web framework on the model of Apple's
> WebObjects.  Its main selling point is a complete separation of
> presentation from logic - each page/component consists of a single ruby
> class definition and a single block of pure html, with no need for
> embedded code or special tags, and with the framework taking care of the
> mechanics of syncing the html elements to the ruby class (roughly, form
> elements <-> attributes, links/submits -> methods, lists/tables <-
> arrays).  Your applications run persistently, communicating
> to the outside world through a simple apache module.
> 
> I'm hesitant to release it publicly at this point mostly because it has
> essentially no documentation... but if anyone's seriously interested I
> wouldn't mind making it available in a limited way.
I am very interested in your work and I have asked months ago, in Ruby
mailing list, is there somebody working on a frame for web applications
in Ruby but I didn't receive any answer. I don't know nothing about
WebObjects, but I have used Zope for a while. I have used PHP for some
little web applications, but now I am using Ruby and I like it very
much. I agree the fact that separating logic from html is a good
practice for large web applications. 
Even if I have been writing programs for the last 20 years and I have
written large c/s applications, I am not a guru in web programming, but
I can help writing code in Ruby, documentation and in other ways.

I think it is a good idea to open it the Ruby comunity, because everbody
will contribute with something to improve it but it remains always
yours.

Have a good time.

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jilani
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