I want to know if there is something in the roadmap (I have not seen
anything in the trac) about portlet support on rails.
What I mean is a rails application or part of it being marked as
portlet and automatically the support for the portlet standard being
build for it.
Also a rails application should be able to load a portlet component.
I know is asking a lot but being rails, one can only expect the
best
That will allow to extend any other application with rails components
and load any other already made component even if not done in Ruby.
Basically allows code to become an "object" that can be used locally
or not.
For instance :
I have not idea about how was that implemented but with portlets you
can have any of the "widgets" in any machine (think about the weather
widget served by some weather-specialized portal) and you just call
them and use them.
Other way to express it: a standard to make a WWW callable API. DBUS
for the WWW.
AFAIK it has been implemented in Java and .NET
For instance, in the rubyonrails web there is a demo about how use
Flickr API to search some photos. With portlets, you'll catch an
already done flickr widget and insert it in your page.
Calling the API is more powerful (you build the UI yourself, etc.),
calling the portlet is much easier (you get a possibly very complex
object already done).
A www ecosystem of widgets done in rails that can be imported with a
few lines ... Rocks!
I know the current aim of RoR is not that, so I was wanted to know if
it was somewhat in the radar or no.
Syndication doesn't require any support from Rails
core. Let's move this conversation over to the
general list.
See this one better:
Basically allows code to become an "object" that can
be used locally
or not.
For instance :
Google
I have not idea about how was that implemented but
with portlets you
can have any of the "widgets" in any machine (think
about the weather
widget served by some weather-specialized portal)
and you just call
them and use them.
Other way to express it: a standard to make a WWW
callable API. DBUS
for the WWW.
AFAIK it has been implemented in Java and .NET
For instance, in the rubyonrails web there is a demo
about how use
Flickr API to search some photos. With portlets,
you'll catch an
already done flickr widget and insert it in your
page.
Calling the API is more powerful (you build the UI
yourself, etc.),
calling the portlet is much easier (you get a
possibly very complex
object already done).
A www ecosystem of widgets done in rails that can be
imported with a
few lines ... Rocks!
I know the current aim of RoR is not that, so I was
wanted to know if
it was somewhat in the radar or no.