<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Deb Lewis <<a href="mailto:djlewis@acm.org">djlewis@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Jeff - greetings! Hard to believe, but I'm gonna break loose some time<br>
for rails and masterview at last!!</blockquote><div><br>Wonderful! <br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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I'm making a pass at upgrading a site to rails 2.0 and shaking out<br>
whatever issues show up with hooking in masterview, so I forked off a<br>
branch to keep track of what I'm changing as I do that.</blockquote><div><br><br>Great! <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I did some experiments a couple months ago with running masterview in<br>
standalone configurations and wasn't very happy with any of my<br>
solutions, so never commmitted anything. Fundamementally our whole<br>
configuration and initialization turns out to be much too tightly<br>
coupled to rails assumptions. So I'm probably going to be fairly<br>
aggressive about rethinking this whole area as part of seeing what<br>
needs to change for Rails 2.0 so that we end up with a cleaner approach<br>
to using masterview in diff operating contexts (say.... merb!!)</blockquote><div><br><br>I agree, we need to make it easy to go between many of the Ruby web frameworks, especially merb. Some of the ruby frameworks are supporting the Rack api which is supposed to make it easy to plug and play web frameworks. I'm sure that only touches the surface though and we still need a good way to config and init.<br>
<br>I would welcome whatever we can do to make this simpler and less dependent on Rails. This is definitely a direction I wanted to go for some time now. I would love for us to be able to move between these environments easily. <br>
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Would like to get this going over the next week or so - would like to<br>
have a good story for RailsConf that masterview is up-to-date and still<br>
alive.</blockquote><div><br><br>I agree. Has been on my plate for sometime too. <br></div></div><br>I have lots of things to discuss with you about next major version of MasterView, we can discuss at conference, I plan to have some details written up to make it productive discussion. Can't start on that until we have any Rails 2.0 and any portability issues worked out, so let me know if you get hung up on anything or want me to look at. <br>
<br>I'm hoping to make some time dedicated to MV as well. I need to use it in the near future for another big project so we should get some good updates in these coming months.<br><br>Have a blessed day! Thanks for all your help and inspiration!<br>
<br>Jeff<br><br><br><br>