Wednesday, December 27, 2006

OMFG! HOBO!

Hobo is out! and it is teh awesomeo! What is "HoBo" ?? According to the site (for those too lazy to click on the link I so nicely provided)

Hobo - the web app builder for Rails

Hobo is an Open-Source project that makes development with Rails even faster than it already is. It features:

  • A template engine that extends Rails' standard ERB templates with user-defined tags
  • A powerful library of pre-defined tags for knocking up ajaxified data-driven sites in a snap
    (lots still to do — help us)
  • Smart support for ajax - easily re-render fragments of your page without extracting them into partials
  • Themes - stick to Hobo's conventions and your apps will be themeable out of the box. We'll have some nice themes for you too!
  • A flexible generic controller - write your controllers with just a few declarations
  • Some ActiveRecord extensions to help stitch it all together



Building a classifieds site Screencast here.

Building a ToDo app zip bundle here.

I know I got kind of excited when streamlined came out, but I think this looks promising and worth watching for a while.

Good work Tom!

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