Comments on: Dojo + Rails = Drails?

By: GibsoundSG

GibsoundSG — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:07:19 +0000

@foobarfighter: thanks!

By: foobarfighter

foobarfighter — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:00:49 +0000

@boosey, @sos: I added an example application that can be used to demonstrate drails in action. It’s still a work in progress, but you can check it out on github. http://github.com/foobarfighter/ideapad

By: boosey

boosey — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:17:14 +0000

This is great! Although Prototype/Scriptaculous are helpful, it is the widgets that I really need.

I am new to Dojo, however, and quite sure on how Dojo and the Rails MVC model would interact. Is there a sample application that can be posted?

By: Piinaaja

Piinaaja — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:19:20 +0000

Tr0y: I think that’s actually going to happen with Rails 3. I remember reading about that somewhere..

By: Tr0y

Tr0y — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:58:59 +0000

Why doesn’t Rails just become JS library agnostic?

By: maddesa

maddesa — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:35:07 +0000

@Flornet: Agree with the others about Dojo. I would also add that Rails and Dojo are a great fit if you look at how nicely Rails easily emits your object data as JSON. Add a few tweaks and you can very easily reformat that JSON to the format expected by dojo.data reference implementations, ItemFileReadStore and ItemFileWriteStore. So with a few lines of ruby and two dojo tags you can have a data backed grid in no time. Also, the declarative nature of dojo, and it’s awesome parser, makes it simple to pass dojoType=… as part of the HTML_OPTIONS property on any of the existing helpers so you can easily dijit-ify your forms.

By: fzammetti

fzammetti — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:04:19 +0000

@Flornet: As smith said, it’s largely a matter of taste and style, but I’d also say that Prototype is barely comperable to Dojo in terms of depth… Prototype gives you the basics you’re likely to need, kind of extending JavaScript into what it should have been all along, but Dojo is a much richer, full-featured API for building webapps… it’s kind of like comparing the C standard library to Java’s class library… the C standard library is immensely useful, but it’s effectively a subset of what the Java class libraries offer (I realize it’s a little unfair comparing a library in one language to a library in another language, but the point is that you’re likely to find analogies to pretty much everything in the C standard library in the Java class libraries, and then a whole lot more on top of that).

By: foobarfighter

foobarfighter — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:57:47 +0000

@sos: I used to have one for the version previous to this so I can reuse some of that. I can probably have something up tomorrow or the next day.

Regards,
Bob

By: sos

sos — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:31:46 +0000

Is there any live demo of an app using d-rails?

By: smith

smith — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:01:53 +0000

@Flornet:

It mostly comes down to a matter of style and taste. Also, Dojo has a lot more functionality out of the box for widgets and other advanced features that you would need to use additional libraries for if you weren’t using it.

http://dojocampus.org/ has lots of examples.

By: Flornet

Flornet — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:36:37 +0000

It might be a “newbie” question but well… Why would you use Dojo instead of Prototype? I’m not very familiar with Dojo, in what way is it different/more interesting?