[Seaside] OSCON "contest"
James Foster
Smalltalk at JGFoster.net
Fri Jul 25 04:10:32 UTC 2008
On Jul 24, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Ramon Leon wrote:
>>
>> And if you were invited to a Ruby event and asked whether Seaside/
>> Magritte could support JavaScript, would you tell them that
>> they were wrong for asking?
>>
>> James
>
> Nope, but I wouldn't be showing them Magritte either, that's a
> mistake, I'd
> be showing them Seaside and Scriptaculous. Magritte is complex in
> the same
> way Glorp is complex, building all those metadata descriptions is
> complex
> and error prone and takes way too much time to use in a demo,
> especially a
> time limited one. Whipping up something in raw Seaside would be
> much faster
> unless you've rigged up some code generators to write the mappings
> automatically for you.
I did try it both ways and building the editor by hand seemed to be
more lines of code and I thought I'd go for something that might seem
more familiar for the domain definition. Also, since I was building
one component by hand trying the other as meta data seemed like
reasonable variety. On the other hand, since I don't consider the
whole experience a great success I certainly won't insist that I made
the right choice.
> Rails guys are accustomed to ActiveRecord and scaffolding which
> bootstraps
> them up to a running system very quickly using code generation and a
> generate and modify philosophy (this is also how they learn Rails).
> Gemstone might eliminate the need for ActiveRecord, but Magritte is
> not at
> all equivalent to scaffolding. Scaffolding is much easier to hack and
> customize because it's not a framework, it's just a bunch of
> generated form
> template code. To compete against Rails in a time limited demo,
> you'll need
> something like a scaffolder, or a form builder you have a very deep
> knowledge of so it can be highly customized on the fly. To sell
> newbs, you
> need the scaffolder, because scaffolding code is an excellent way to
> teach
> them how to write Seaside code, they don't need yet another framework
> (Magritte) to learn.
Agreed. Maybe next time I'll channel the better-known "James" and try
a demo of Web Velocity!
> Ramon Leon
> http://onsmalltalk.com
James Foster
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