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Just a thought experiment... Would this allow for full stack ruby apps? Writing a client side router and controllers in Ruby on Rails compiled to web assembly

by hhw3h 8y ago

Just a thought experiment... Would this allow for full stack ruby apps? Writing a client side router and controllers in Ruby on Rails compiled to web assembly? If you could just toggle in production.rb if you want your routing to be client side or server side and the framework could transparently manage that for you.

jballanc 8y ago
In theory you could already do this with Opal (https://github.com/opal/opal https://github.com/opal/opal).
- lloeki 8y ago
  In practice too: http://www.voltframework.com http://www.voltframework.com
  - mshenfield 8y ago
    Nice. Anyone else getting a "Connection Lost..." message as soon as they visit the page?
  - nick_urban 8y ago
    Does not seem to be actively developed, however. Last commit was in early 2016: https://github.com/voltrb/volt/ https://github.com/voltrb/volt/
reese_john 8y ago
I believe Hyperloop[0] tries to accomplish something similar [0] http://ruby-hyperloop.org/ http://ruby-hyperloop.org/
Asmod4n 8y ago
There is no Ruby on Rails for mruby, yet.
- nitrogen 8y ago
  What are the differences between mruby and MRI that prevent this?
  - Mikeb85 8y ago
    mruby is an embedded language so it's missing a lot of the built-in features that MRI has.
keithnz 8y ago
yes, and it's not only ruby doing this, various other languages are doing it also. So it's going to be interesting to see what kind of disruption that has on javascript on the client side.