RoR and OpenLaszlo Together

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, October 16, 2006 @ 1:03 am

I hope to have a number of things to say about OpenLaszlo this week, both good and bad. First, let me say that when I first experimented with OpenLaszlo, it struck me as nice presentation layer scaffolding for a more substantial server-side framework. I didn't expect that framework to be Ruby on Rails, however. Nonetheless, in my travels around the web I came accross ROpenLaszlo and the OpenLaszlo Rails Plugin. From the ROpenLaszlo web site:

ROpenLaszo is a Ruby interface to the OpenLaszlo compiler. It allows you to compile OpenLaszlo programs from within Ruby, in order to integrate OpenLaszlo development into Rake or Rails applications.

Combine it with the Rails Plugin:

The OpenLaszlo Rails plugin makes it easy to use OpenLaszlo client-side applications with Rails. It includes generators and scaffolding for creating OpenLaszlo applications, connecting them to Rails REST controllers, and displaying them within Rails views.

and you can generate interfaces on the fly and hook them up with a REST-based RoR backend. Throw in the fact that Laszlo will do DHTML before too long, and you can see the possibilities. Some rough edges on all of these tools, but other framework designers should take a lesson on how to integrate OpenLazlo as a presentation layer.

Technorati : ajax, flash, openlaszlo, ror, ruby

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