[MacRuby-devel] PBI - MacRuby aux Fines Merbs...

[Matt Aimonetti]

Merb <3 MacRuby

During RubyConf, Laurent, Yehuda, Rich and myself were talking about how to
work closer.

We were thinking about maybe running Merb on MacRuby so we could introspect
a dev app and see what's going on. A bit like the iPhone dev tools.

We are also looking at simpler MacRuby apps such as Merb News, Merb Doc but
also integration with merb-messenger (feature being developed and offering
communcation via jabber/growl/email/other protocol between a running app and
one or many clients).

Anyway, my point is that I totally agree with you ;)

-Matt

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:

> IMHO, MacRuby and Merb are two of the most interesting current
> developments in the Ruby arena.  Because I've been looking at
> both of them, I started noticing some similarities, including:
>
>  * Focus on design and engineering
>
>   In an age of "cowboy programming", I find it refreshing to
>   see that some programming projects actually embrace design
>   and engineering.
>
>  * large, well-documented APIs
>
>   In a community dominated by a web framework (Rails) that
>   has no defined API, I think this is quite noteworthy.
>
>  * MVC-based UI frameworks
>
>   Both MacRuby and Merb can both be used for purposes other
>   than interactive UI development (eg, batch-mode applications,
>   web services).  However, their focus is on UI and both use an
>   MVC-based approach (though the specifics vary markedly).
>
>
> Anyway, I started wondering whether any parts of Merb might be
> useful for MacRuby to consider adopting.  For example:
>
>  *  Merb, like Rails, defines conventions for directory layout.
>    Would it make sense for MacRuby to have similar conventions?
>
>  *  Merb stresses modularity very strongly, using gems to add
>    "plugins", "slices", etc.  What kinds of modularity should
>    we encourage for MacRuby, HotCocoa, etc?
>
>  *  Some of Merb's plugins add functionality (eg, DataMapper)
>    which might be useful in a MacRuby application.  Would it
>    be useful for MacRuby to be able to use Merb plugins?
>
> Comments solicited...
>
> -r
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