Hi, Last week, someone asked me if Rails is limited to (r)html (so webapps) only. My first answer was ''yes'' - because I think the inner workings of Rails is http-specific. After some googling, I came up with this link : http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2005/01/25/rich-clients-with-rails-and-xul/ and http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/cookbooxul/ , where Zed Shaw does a little rails-hacking and uses XUL for the V in the MVC... and got a bit excited. So I was just wondering... Is Rails really limited to html? I believe it would be nice to use Rails - or more the philosophies of Rails - for a desktop-application oriented framework. It would mean to lose a bit of simplicity, but gaining a lot more flexibility. Just wondering - Is this possible with Rails? Don''t get me wrong - I enjoy Rails for developing webapps, but I would love it even more if I could use it all the time! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On 10/16/06, Joram <joram.barrez-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > Hi, > > Last week, someone asked me if Rails is limited to (r)html (so webapps) > only. > My first answer was ''yes'' - because I think the inner workings of Rails > is http-specific.Well its HTTP specific, but that means that it is easily applied to anything that you could normally send over HTTP, which does include web-services a-like stuff, XML and dynamically formatted text files. In fact there is a proliferation of View technologies in Rails. rhtml templates are probably the most familiar technology, but by no means the only one. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
That''s correct. And I could do that - but that means also more work when creating the GUI (as by using the http protocol all the time) with the ruby gtk-bindings. What I mean is a system like Rails: the variables of the controller are visible in the view for example. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Rails is a web framework. It''s geared toward responding to internet requests, whether through a browser or machine-to-machine as web services or email responders. However, Ruby can be used for anything any other mainstream high-level language can be used for, including GUI apps.. and most relevant to your original question, you can use parts of the Rails framework in non-web applications. A component of Rails that makes sense for many people for non-web applications is ActiveRecord, which is useful for any kind of SQL database work. It''s like any other language. People create desktop GUI apps with Java, VB and Python all the time, but nobody makes desktop GUI apps with JSP or whatever (Java), ASP (VB) or Zope (Python). I have no idea whether or not there''s an MVC Ruby framework for GUI apps. If you don''t find that answer here or on Google, you may want to ask a Ruby list. Joram wrote:> That''s correct. And I could do that - but that means also more work > when creating the GUI (as by using the http protocol all the time) with > the ruby gtk-bindings. > What I mean is a system like Rails: the variables of the controller are > visible in the view for example.-- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot of sense. It''s not that I needed it for my current project, but the person who guides my project did ask that question. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---