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.