Playlouder dev blog

This monday I shall be giving a talk at the London Ruby Users Group. I’ll be giving a tour through our experiences building a modular composable Widget UI framework ontop of Ruby on Rails. Some of the steps we took along the way, problems we encountered, and a tour of the results.

There’s also a juicy debate to be had comparing the REST-driven web application architecture pushed by the Rails project, with our more modular widget-based approach, and in deciding what’s appropriate for your application. For those in the know, comparisons abound with the approach taken by Avi Bryant’s Seaside framework, and the Apotomo plugin already in development for Rails.

The framework comes with a client-side component too, and means of serializing Widgets to constructors for corresponding client-side javascript classes - so the talk may also interest those attempting to do Javascript in an unobtrusive, object-oriented way with Rails.

After that I believe (sincerely hope ) there are drinks.

The talk is open to all but the venue ask that you Register here; see LRUG for more details.