Rails Application builders

stephane — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:12:00 +0200

Few month ago I started posts on admin tools for Rails and advanced ruby on rails to help in applications. This week end I found some frameworks doing that stuff: Application builders, that means things are on going.

hobo

~~The most “alive” and~~ completed builder. It provides:

assitant for model creation
user management, roles
an interface to manage models

If you can do with the default theme, this builder is a good start, the new website is nice and the you can find help and demos about the framework.

[EDIT: there is a long article on oreilly gmt]

ajuby

ajuby

It’s another try for an Application builder ~~but I haven’t found any activity for the last month. Is it still alive ?~~ [EDIT: see the comments]

Conclusion

I really think this kind of Application Builder are great for developers. Think about this, Rails is a great framework already, make development faster, but when you develop an entire Application from scratch it’s not really DRY, has you have to set up again and again basis of your business needs, as user management. With Application builder don’t need to repeat these steps and you have every things ready to work. It s going further than Rails then make development very Rapid.

links

hobo
ajuby

"Rails Application builders" by Brij Singh

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:37:35 +0200

Hi Stephane,

Thanks for looking into Ajuby. There is a genuine need to ease the application building process so more projects like Hobo and Ajuby are welcome.

We are working on the next release and fortunately in our case much of the work is driven by actual customer implementation so there is a lag in rolling out new features.

More enterprisey-stuff like Salesforce integration is coming in next release.

Hobo looks good as well.

Thanks once again.

Brij

http://www.ajuby.com

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