Components in Rails

Posted February 11, 2010 * Comments(2)

I gave a talk at the RORO meeting in Sydney on Tuesday night (Feb 9th, 2010) covering the ideas of desktop development that have been used in web development, and how and why we might think of using components with Rails. In particular, I focused on two Rails based frameworks — Cells and Apotomo.

My slides (built for use with Scott Chacon’s neat Showoff framework) are on GitHub: Beyond Actions – Components in Rails slides.

2 Comments so far

  1. Nick Sutterer on March 19th, 2010

    hi david,
    nice! my wordpress just told me you were talking about my stuff. that’s cool- like your slides!!!

    i’m having a somehow similar thing in june here: http://it-republik.de/conferences/railswaycon2010/tracks/?tid=1587#session-13661

    thank you for your interest!

    concerning your slides, i got some news for you:

    1. testing components is now easier, see http://github.com/apotonick/cells_examples/blob/master/test/functional/post_cell_test.rb

    2. did you talk about caching components as well? that’s one of my favorite topic to talk about, as caching small components is clean and easy, compared with the rails views caching.

    3. Apotomo went through the forge again and is almost completely refactored (-50% code and complexity).
    one important change is you don’t need #transition anymore (if you want, you can still use it).
    there will be a blog post naming all important changes, will let you know.

    greetings from europe to the down under,
    cheers,

    nick

  2. Dave B on March 20th, 2010

    Thanks Nick, we’re using cells heavily at my current project (big high traffic corporate website.)

    Very useful tool for managing complexity in a large application.

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