Comments on jimmy.thinking: Browser, meet Ruby on Rails

Joe - Your work is amazing! I have been building a...

2008-08-12T14:53:00.000-07:00

Joe - Your work is amazing! I have been building a rails silverlight application - the silverlight ui is completely programmed in ruby and talks to a backend rails server via webservices - but now you have this awesome plugin - no need for all that ! It's really brilliant!

One question - is it possible to just use my existing ruby code with the plugin rather than converting it back to xaml? Any pointers in this direction would be great :) - keep up the great work :)

oh, and I'm working on removing the silverlight de...

2008-08-07T17:45:00.000-07:00

oh, and I'm working on removing the silverlight dependency if you just want to use ruby/python for dom-manipulation ... More on that later :-P

@nathanvda There is no "microsoft dependency" on t...

2008-08-07T17:42:00.000-07:00

@nathanvda There is no "microsoft dependency" on the server side; the only dependency is Silverlight on the clients. I've tested it on ruby-1.8.6 using rails-2.0.2, both on windows and mac, and running under mongrel, webrick, and apache (fcgi and mod_rails). Actually, http://silverline.schementi.com is hosted on dreamhost using modrails. :)

Just a simple question, maybe blattantly obvious, ...

2008-08-07T00:46:00.000-07:00

Just a simple question, maybe blattantly obvious, but when you say it is a Ruby On Rails plugin, it is any RoR, right? There is no need for a Microsoft IIS running IronRuby, but i could just use it on a hosted RoR site, correct?
If that is the case, it is really awesome! :)

@jonelf: You'll need Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to view ...

2008-07-30T15:50:00.000-07:00

@jonelf: You'll need Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to view silverline.schementi.com. However, I had a bug in silverline where the "installation experience" looked for SL2Beta2, but when not found linked you to SL2Beta1 =P. That's fixed now, so you should be able to go the site, and it'll link you to the correct version of Silverlight if you don't have it installed. Let me know if you have any other problems.

@nick: Degrading is definitely something that this plugin needs to support. The RJS files running in Silverlight isn't fully implemented yet, but falling back to normal Rails behavior when Silverlight isn't found is something I'd like to do. You should open a bug on http://silverline.lighthouseapp.com.

Actually, detecting that Silverlight isn't there might be tricky, since RJS is processed on the server, and we don't know whether silverlight is there or not until it gets to the client. Tricky =P

I have Silverligt 2 Beta 1 but when I go to:
h...

2008-07-30T14:57:00.000-07:00

I have Silverligt 2 Beta 1 but when I go to:
http://silverline.schementi.com/watch
I get a link to download Silverlight. There I get:
"The site that you visited was built for an earlier, beta version of Silverlight - not the current one. Please contact the site owner to let them know that they must upgrade to the latest release of Silverlight 2"

What's up?

Jimmy,

Sounds like a great idea! Question: ...

2008-07-25T22:14:00.000-07:00

Jimmy,

Sounds like a great idea! Question: how does it degrade? The site says you can just rename an .rjs to a .rb; what happens if the user doesn't have Silverlight? Can we detect this and have it render the .rjs? (Note: haven't actually looked much at the code yet, so forgive me if this seems ignorant.)