tag:www.ruby-reactive.org,2008:mephisto/ Mephisto Drax 2008-05-15T07:07:37Z admin tag:www.ruby-reactive.org,2008-05-14:1 2008-05-14T09:00:00Z 2008-05-15T07:07:37Z

<p>Remember <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Rails?</a></p> <p>Yeah, of course. It's this famous Web framework with a bunch of cooked-in facilities.</p> <p>Please welcome its alter-ego for desktop applications: <b>Reactive</b></p>

<p>Remember <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Rails?</a></p> <p>Yeah, of course. It's this famous Web framework with a bunch of cooked-in facilities.</p> <p>Please welcome its alter-ego for desktop applications: <b>Reactive</b></p> <p>Remember <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Rails?</a></p> <p>Yeah, of course. It's this famous Web framework with a bunch of cooked-in facilities.</p> <p>Please welcome its alter-ego for desktop applications: <b>Reactive</b></p> <p>So what does reactive provide? It's a development framework for the <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org">Ruby</a> language. It targets the desktop environment, so stop now if you are a HTML aficionados. It's built on the same architecture than rails: MVC. Thus, rails developers will feel at home.</p> <p>Because choosing a GUI toolkit is a matter of taste, religion and also customer needs, reactive does not enforce the developer to use a dedicated toolkit. Enter the <i>view provider</i> system. The view is simply a layer that is not part of reactive but one of its plugins.</p> <p>Hey, this sounds good, but I want to see some code!. Yeah, the code is hosted on <a href="http://rubyforge.org/projects/reactive">RubyForge</a>. You may already read the code, but wait for an upcoming post showing how to create a simple application.