steveklabnik2

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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
Awesome. Let me know how it goes, please. :) > The Hypermedia stuff is most exciting to me, Me too. There's nothing concrete here yet, but there's lots of space to explore and good things to build. I really want us to be a leader in thi
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
It's the exact same as Sinatra vs. Rails: build it all yourself vs. using a framework that has it built for you.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
I've responded to your sibling.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
Basically, as it stands, you have to put your {Ember,Backbone,..} app in `app/assets/javascripts/app/models`, for example, which is kinda crazy. I'd like to see JavaScript become an actual first-class citizen. Also, the pipeline has been re
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
The organization includes ActiveModel::Serializers, which is really important for giving you normalized JavaScript output. Rabl is slow and manual, which is the opposite of the Rails philosophy. Convention over Configuration wins every time
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
The asset pipline isn't removed, so you don't need to do anything special. That said, I don't think that it's ideal for heavy JS apps. Lots of possible work that could be done in this area.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
Roger. I'll add one, thanks.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
The problem with benchmarks is that they don't really correspond to reality. Your app is not a simple test app. Your site will not be running on my MacBook Air. Your users won't have the usage patterns my script does.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
> Does the hypermedia support exist now, or is that a future goal? Future goal. There's nothing at the moment, but it's a case that we're interested in. I'd love to talk about exactly what we need to do on the mailing list. > Also,
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
Thanks! Do you need something more than what's in the README[1], or do you mean I should have linked it from my post? 1: https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api#railsapi
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
Awesome. Please let me know how I can help you build your apps more effectively.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
So sorry about this. I was travelling back from Europe, and we had to coordinate between everyone who owned the various gems, so there was a bit of overlap there. I hope to not be encouraging people to use HEAD soon.
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by steveklabnik2 14y ago
It already is: https://github.com/rails-api/rails-api#for-new-apps This is not a fork of Rails, it's just a set of plugins that work together nicely. Luckily, all the work on Rails 3 means that Rails is super modular, and it's easy to bre