Re: Ruby On Rails on the iSeries

[Jerome Hughes <jromeh@xxxxxxx>]

this is done in Rails' .rhtml views as well

it is possible to insert ruby scripting in the view, but frowned upon

optimally most scripting is handled in the controller .rb files,  
preparing model data for portrayal in the view .rhtml files

--Jerome

been knocking about with RoR intermittently for some months, will go  
farther soon as have committed to presenting a mini-demo for OMNI in  
September


On Aug 15, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Mike Eovino wrote:

> > Anyways, my biggest concern with Rails is if it ponies up when I  
> > need to
> > write a more complex application.  I would rather not have to do  
> > trial and
> > error to find that out because right now I am "framework fried"  
> > after trying
> > both JSF and Tapestry and finding they both caused just as many  
> > headaches as
> > the time I was expecting to save.
>
> For what it's worth, none of my green-haired kids (young Java experts)
> are big fans of frameworks.  From their experiences, frameworks are
> great for simple apps, but you wind up fighting the framework for more
> complex apps.  At their recommendation, we do plain-old Model 2 JSP,
> and we keep scripting in JSPs to an absolute minimum.  They'd rather
> write HTML in the servlet and pass it along to the JSP than do Java in
> their JSPs.  Seems reasonable to me.
>
> Mike E.
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