Dec meeting?
Chris Griffin
specific features to. He would like to demo it at the meeting. Is that
possible? Are we full for this meeting?
Best regards,
Chris Griffin
cgri...@33keys.com
Patrick Crowley
> specific features to. He would like to demo it at the meeting. Is that
> possible? Are we full for this meeting?
Sure, Chris. That would be great.
Anyone else down for speaking this time? (Sorry I haven't organized
anything in advance this time, btw. Things should improve after the
holidays.)
-- Patrick
Gisborne
> Anyone else down for speaking this time? (Sorry I haven't organized
> anything in advance this time, btw. Things should improve after the
> holidays.)
alternative to scaffold code for controllers). Might be interesting
for 20 minutes. I'll come ready to show it.
Stephen Waits
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Gisborne wrote:
> I've got some Rails stuff I worked up for a new project (it's a mixin
> alternative to scaffold code for controllers). Might be interesting
> for 20 minutes. I'll come ready to show it.
Missed the meeting. Can you share your module here?
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Stephen Waits
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Gisborne wrote:
> alternative to scaffold code for controllers). Might be interesting
> for 20 minutes. I'll come ready to show it.
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st...@waits.net
http://swaits.com/
Guyren G Howe
> ... resending this since I got no response ...
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Gisborne wrote:
>
>> I've got some Rails stuff I worked up for a new project (it's a mixin
>> alternative to scaffold code for controllers). Might be interesting
>> for 20 minutes. I'll come ready to show it.
>
>
> Missed the meeting. Can you share your module here?
Sorry. I intend to share it, but I'm still developing the code.
Basically, I'm abstracting out everything that is kind of "could do
this with Filemaker" in a pretty standard intraweb application. This
includes developing it with a view to the idea that applications ought
to be more easily customized by end users. So the list views trivially
support end-user modification to choose the fields they want to see,
including from related tables.
And I'm drawing on some things I've been exposed to that will should
make searching easier for Muggles.
Users can put together their own perspectives on the data, just by
bookmarking the searches that are useful to them. Or they can do a
search, and then get an alert when the result set changes or is non-
empty. That sort of thing.
The end result will be something rather like using Filemaker, only you
can jump in with Rails and customize it anywhere you need to go beyond
Filemaker like capability. Define the database schema, lay out some
HTML, and the basic application is done.
This seems like a nice idea to me. None of it's rocket science, but
someone should put it together.
So I'm developing this with a real intraweb application as its use
case. Once the framework starts to solidify, I'll put it up on github.
But it's pretty bare bones at the moment. I have the basic controller
behaviors for crud operations working for any form that follows Rails
naming conventions, and now I'm working on the user-customizable list
view.
I will probably demonstrate what I have at the next meeting, which
should include that plus the basics of the searching.
I guess if this sounds amazing to a few people, I could step up the
effort to publish it. Anyone want to help with this thing?
Stephen Waits
>
> I guess if this sounds amazing to a few people, I could step up the
> effort to publish it. Anyone want to help with this thing?
I was just interested to see what you were doing with the mixin. Sounds
like quite a bit more than I'd guessed. I'm interested in seeing it for
geek appeal, if nothing else.
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Stephen Waits
st...@waits.net
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