Hello. My name is Michal Pokorný and I''m a computer science student from Czech Republic. I would like to apply for this year''s Google Summer of Code, and since I like Ruby, Rails looks like a good project to contribute to. The web-based console idea from the ideas page seems really nice. The ideas page mentions the Conductor gem (https://github.com/dhh/conductor/). It looks neat, but unfortunately I couldn''t get it to run (the last commit is 3 years old, so I didn''t try too hard, to be honest). From the source code, it seems to be able to show annotations, routes and code stats (# of controllers, etc.) and to create scaffolds. In general, it looks like it tries to wrap common Rails tasks into a nice web interface, which would be cool. However, when I read the project name, I first thought of "a web interface to rails console", in the command-line, IRB sense. I didn''t think of all the issues this approach might have yet, but I think it would be much more universal: not everything a developer needs to do in a Rails (CLI) console is representable with buttons, forms, and so on. However, I imagine that running `rails console` instances in the background of a development server might turn into a fragile hack. I think a "hybrid console" might be the best: common rake tasks, generators and so on could be reachable with a GUI, and browser-IRB might be available for more complicated stuff. So, what do you think about this? What features would you want to have in a Rails web console? Is it insane to even consider running code someone writes into a web page? :) Also, if you''re interested, let me tell you a few things about my background. Most of my experience comes from C, C++, C#, and (unfortunately) PHP. I have been interested in Ruby (and Rails) for some two or three years now. I have written a few things in Java (mostly for Android) and Python. I experimented with others, but there''s not much worth mentioning. I am now a freshman at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague. Thanks for your ideas! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/9VL4Jpmah4kJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.