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Am thinking about building a social networking site,that can function more like an application then a site,thus giving it better performance and user interface.
what am stuck up with here is which would be the best framework to try this out?
GWT-i have some experience(about 2 years) with Java and it looks easy but the forum appears dead.
Ruby on Rails- i visited the website today,went through a few tutorials and it looks easy to learn,but i never programmed on this 1 before.
Grails - i have heard that this is a very god framework and based on java,but i've never personally tried it.
What would you think would be the right choice?
it would be cool if you consider factors like performance,scalability and the widgets already available.I don't really care about the development time...i've got more than 2months!
Especially with a Java background, Grails would be a good choice. Grails is built on top of Spring and Hibernate, but makes using them much easier. No painful editing of XML config files.
Although, I'd make sure you evaluate using Ning and the existing open source projects before you bother building another one from scratch.
I'm not sure what you mean by "more like an application then a site". If what you mean is give the app a desktop application feel, then I think GWT fits more. Though if you want to have something really fast, (half the development time that you'd use to develop it in GWT), then I'd recommend rails. I haven't tried Grails before but it seems neat.
The best for you to use is ruby on rails if it about performance,scalability and the widgets
then you have no problem at all. It also has lots of gems/plugins that can help you so much
Read this book Grails in action.
It shows you how to make a social networking site using grails.
It uses an old version of Grails but you can adapt it.
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I want to develop a personal blogging website using ASP.NET MVC 4.
I know that I could be using WordPress/ Joomla/ Orchard/ Umbraco/ Funnelweb, etc., instead of reinventing the wheel but I really wish to try it out myself.
I do not want my website to look like some beatle-aged archaic remain. I see plugins like Akismet/ Prettify/ Markdown/ nrelate that add amazing functionalities to your blog. But I am not really sure if I would be able to use any of these in my custom application as most of them are PHP based. I want to stick under the Microsoft roof and implement technologies like HTML5, CSS3 Silverlight5 and WCF 4.0, along with ASP.NET MVC 4. (At least thats what I plan to do)
I understand that I need to develop a scalable database design that could accomodate newer functionalities in the future. Additionally, the exorbitant focus on SEO and cross-browser capabilities is overwhelming. Permanent links for individual blogs, internal navigation, video-embedding inside posts, etc., sound like building Rome in a day
Please if you could guide me personally or direct me to appropriate resources, it would be very helpful.
I am sort of doing it right now on my own. It's not done yet but it will give you an idea: MvcBloggy.
Also, have a look at FunnelWeb source code. It's written in C# and uses ASP.NET MVC 3 I believe but it's a really good resource and easy to follow.
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I'm a college student trying to make a web community with friends. Although we are not experienced developers by any means, we have taken courses on JAVA and some web programming languages (PHP, JAVASCRIPT, CSS, HTML).
At this point, we need to decide on a web framework and begin learning. I have narrowed down my list to Ruby on Rails and Codeigniter, but I am really not sure why I should pick one over the other.
Thanks in advance.
Pick the one you want to learn and go with it.
I will personally recommend Rails because:
it teaches you a lot of best practices if you do things the Rails Way™
Ruby is a fun, easy-to-learn, expressive language
the community is really big, enthusiastic, and very helpful
there's great books and tutorials available all over the internet
There is nothing like the good framework. It highly depends on, in no particular order :
your skills
your tastes (Yes, it does matter a lot)
your willingness to learn
technical constraints. Your hosting company may support only Ruby or only PHP
...
I personally had the occasion to develop with CodeIgniter and I pretty much enjoyed it. It is light, well documented and leaves you with a lot of freedom.
I also have a good friend for whom Ruby On Rails is the only framework deserving the name of "framework".
If your project is ambitious, a good idea to make your point could be to make a trivial application like a TODO list with both framework and then pick the one that fits your need.
Hope this helps.
If there is no time constraint (as you need to learn both ruby lang and rails framework) and want to know the best practices, i would recommend RubyonRails.
If you have time constraint, then go ahead with Codeigniter. It is easy to learn and well documented.
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I am starting a website and am wondering if I should go with PHP, a php framework, or ruby on rails? I want to make a website fast, easiest and without a big learning curve. I already know a little bit of php and a little ruby on rails...But which would be best?
OK so to clarify more on the topic of what my site will be, It's basically a Classified Ads website that needs to have a user login, ability to post classifieds, and categorizing, and basically anything else a classified website has.
I would put my vote in for Rails. It's easy to get started building a website that requires persistence in a database, and there are many websites that host the framework. I agree with #Squeegy that PHP is great for sprinkling dynamic content into an otherwise static page, but it sounds to me that you want something more involved, so I would go with Rails.
Start with anything you know better.
PHP is great for sprinkling bits of dynamic content into a website. Given your requirements "fast, easiest and without a big learning curve" I think PHP would be ideal.
Now a large and more complex site, that would be much better suited to a framework. But with any framework also comes steep learning curve.
Codeigniter.com, try it out, it rocks.
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Please advice me some really great Ruby on Rails 3 application which i can use like example of best practices in Rails 3. The idea is i want to have the app on my hdd which i can use like reference when i have any questions how to implement some feature. It could be any blog engine, or app like Redmine does not matter but it should have almost all elements/functionality which is used to have any web application. And it should be done by using best practices from Ruby and Rails 3 point of view.
There are definitely many apps on github to learn from. However a lot of solutions are very unique for particular contexts and everyone is always at some stage in their learning. Even in the best apps you should be able to find plenty to disagree with.
Here's a list of a few notable ones.
This is rubygems.org, strong community effort, has a lot of neat practices: https://github.com/rubygems/gemcutter
This project isn't necessarily best practices, but it's so loud and has so many people involved in working out all kinds of initially-written crap, that it may shape into something interesting: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
This is a popular e-commerce rails app for you to build upon. Haven't read the code, but again, it's pretty popular, which means, well supported by community: https://github.com/railsdog/spree
For more check out awesome github's explore page: https://github.com/explore.
P.S. Bucketwise is a Rails2 app created by Jamis Buck (of 37signals and Rails core). It's still worth watching even if you're looking for Rails 3 insights.
I like the Getting Started with Rails guides. They're not really a complete app, but they are good examples of how things should be done and should be current.
You can also search on Github for Rails apps. The source code should be viewable, and if you have an account you can watch the various projects and see what's new.
Opinions of "best practices" vary widely. I would just read a ton of rails 3 code on github, and then read a ton more! By reading code, you will learn what is common in the rails world and develop your own best practices.
rails3-devise-mongoid is a good one
as is ror_ecommerce
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I'm looking for a desktop application framework similar to Rails:
Good ORM
MVC
Default directory structure
View Helpers/DSL
Elegant
Open Source
Fun language
Decently mature
Check out Griffon, a Grails-like framework for Swing application development that fulfills all your needs.
Have you checked out Shoes?
There is also Bowline. It was mentioned in ruby inside blog recently. I haven't tried it. Tried Shoes though. It is very simple.
There is another one called Anvil. Anvil is a MVC framework that wants to be equivalent to rails for GUI development. It is based on wxruby. Which makes me want to try it.
try Rebol, it's got the simplest gui that is out there. an example of a window with one text field, one button "click me" and a label "hello" :-
view layout [ field label "hello" button "click me" ]
or if you want it in multi line
view layout [
field
label "hello"
button "click me"
]
I've personally ended up using Swing/SWT + JRuby. The Java cross-platform GUI libraries are just light-years ahead because they're used for IDEs, which are about the most demanding application you can have for a GUI toolkit. It's nowhere near as elegant as Rails is for the web (and I'm no fan of Rails), but in the long run, it's a much better choice than anything based on wxWidgets or GTK or QT. It also gives you the option to drop into Java if you have a particular piece that's running too slow. I wish there were better options, but that's what we've got.
Monkeybars is the main solution I'm aware of, but it's not ideal from the point of view of your bullet list. Its "MVC" isn't really like any other interpretation of MVC that I've come across; it's more a convenience wrapper around Swing. At least, that's the way I use it.