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Chris Westbrook wrote:

I know that Prototype (*cough* "jQuery")is the library of choice for most rails developers. When it comes to enterprise level apps and having an extensive commercially supported library, you cannot beat ExtJS. If you want a great case study, look at SalesForce.com and how they have used ExtJS as their library of choice.

Yay for Ext JS. The concept of having a rich JavaScript client application talking with a RESTful Rails application works very well for back-end applications. I can heartily recommend everyone to try it. SproutCore and Cappuccino are among the alternatives.

There's this little chicken-and-egg problem between Ext JS and Rails where the two have different interpretations of RESTful resources. Nothing that a little customization can't fix, but following Rails tradition it'd be great if Ext JS was compatible out of the box.

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Of course, if the cost were the same as rails “out of the box” that would be even better.

Cheers–

Charles

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Roderick van Domburg wrote:

Charles Johnson wrote:

Of course, if the cost were the same as rails "out of the box" that would be even better.

+1 on that one too. :slight_smile:

-- Roderick van Domburg http://www.nedforce.nl

It's a start, but the new beta just happens to be released as MIT Licensed "Ext Core".

http://extjs.com/blog/2009/04/04/ext-core-30-beta-released/

On that same note, those of you that have a hard time with RDoc, check out the standard API Docs for ExtJS and Ext Core.

http://extjs.com/products/extcore/docs/

Even better, and not to hijack my own thread, but I started playing around with the Documentation Generator and .... It works... Just find yourself with the Ruby (*shakes head*) "=begins" and "=end".

I would say that this is a good "RDoc Alternative" for ruby code (And JavaScript as well.)

http://code.google.com/p/ext-doc/