comp.lang.ruby

Curt Hibbs

6/28/2005 1:34:00 PM

Impressive!

Curt

Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm finally done tinkering and messing with my latest rendition of
> CookbooXUL. Feel free to read all about it at:
>
> http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/c...
>
> It comes with available code, which will work once you install Rails and
> Ruby/Odeum from my site as well. You'll also have to download recipes
> and such to get it all up on your own. It's released LGPL for now.
>
> The neat things about this are:
>
> 1. Uses a very thin Rails backend with a thick XUL/XPFE frontend.
> 2. Client is controlled by a little Finite State Machine framework I
> wrote that simplifies the application logic.
> 3. It's completely asynchronous, which is easy to do with the FSM.
> 4. The FSM framework includes lots of goodies for working with the DOM,
> pasting in XSLT, and doing asynch XmlHttpRequests.
> 5. The backend actually passes back events to the client using a special
> HTTP header (X-AppState).
> 6. It includes the same 10,000 recipes.
> 7. It demonstrates modifying the XUL interface using an XSLT based on a
> response.
> 8. Demonstrates doing a timer 'tick' to work the UI while waiting for
> something.
> 9. There's a demo available at http://zedsucks.dhs.org:800...
> (also mentioned in the article). This is up as long as I can keep it
> without pissing off my ISP.
>
> I fixed a ton of bugs, but I'm sure there's more. Feel free to send
> them my way as well as comments. Hopefully the article is detailed
> enough to get you started, but not so detailed that you don't have fun
> figuring it out.
>
> Zed
>
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