Streamlined dead?

[Julian]

Hi all,
can we all assume that streamlined is dead? The blog hasn't been
updated since August 2008 and it's still at a very buggy RC1 stage.
Great idea but sadly looks like it needs a bit more of a push to take
this thing off the ground?

Anyone used anything similar?

[Zeff Morgan]

Seems like a lot of these types of projects have had their lulls.  But if Streamlined doesn't pick back up, you could check out ActiveScaffold.  There are quite a few differences in implementation, but it's something else to look at if you're wanting a plug in solution instead of building one from scratch.

There's also Hobo and make_resourceful.  I have yet to check out that last one.

Not trying to knock Streamlined ... it's a great project and I hope it continues on.

Z

[Rob Sanheim]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Julian <julian...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

Hi Julian

I work with Relevance and have been a contributor to Streamlined for
over a year. At this point I would agree that Streamlined is in
pretty rough shape. None of the people who started Streamlined are
even hacking Ruby on a daily basis, so its lived a long and (I hope)
helpful life for a lot of people.

The real difficultly with Streamlined is two-fold:

* the code base has a serious case of technical debt...major
refactoring is needed
* keeping up with the continual Rails view layer changes is a constant
pain and productivity drain

We've put out calls for others to step up and take over the project,
but so far noone has responded.

So thats where things stand right now. HTH

- Rob

http://thinkrelevance.com
http://runcoderun.com

[Julian]

Thanks Rob and Zeff -- that's extremely helpful and hopefully
insightful for others who come across Streamlined to be aware of the
current reality.

Yes I was blown away by Streamlined when it came out and it has solved
many problems for my wife's project to-date but it does look like it
makes sense to move on to frameworks that are actively being
maintained and supported.

And I totally agree, I can appreciate how much effort such a project
is -- particularly at the breathtaking pace that Rails moves at! I've
never found time to do such things and I'm in constant awe with those
who do actually make such awesome contributions.

Concidentally Zeff I just came across ActiveScaffold a minute before
reading these posts again. Thanks for the ideas and happy coding!



On Feb 26, 1:43 am, Rob Sanheim <rsanh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Zeff Morgan]

No problem at all, Julian.

I have to agree ... Streamlined was a lifesaver for a project I was working on in '07.  I guess we'll see what happens to Streamlined in the future.

To Rob ... and everyone else who helped drive and contributed to Streamlined ... thank you so much.  It's efforts like these that have helped many a developer (like myself) make the jump to Rails.  Even if Streamlined fades away at this point, you helped show everyone the kind of wonderful things that makes Rails a great framework to code in.

Happy coding indeed!!

Z

[marciocamurati]

Hi,

I am working at now on I18n Streamlined fork with Rails 2.2 this
feature is very important to some projects and this plugin is also to
create the admin space, if anyone have interest on this feature I will
put it on git soon.

Regards.
Marcio Camurati

On 4 mar, 11:34, Zeff Morgan <zeff.mor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No problem at all, Julian.
>
> I have to agree ... Streamlined was a lifesaver for a project I was working
> on in '07.  I guess we'll see what happens to Streamlined in the future.
>
> To Rob ... and everyone else who helped drive and contributed to Streamlined
> ... thank you so much.  It's efforts like these that have helped many a
> developer (like myself) make the jump to Rails.  Even if Streamlined fades
> away at this point, you helped show everyone the kind of wonderful things
> that makes Rails a great framework to code in.
>
> Happy coding indeed!!
>
> Z
>