I am currently now sharing offices in London with a good friend of mine and others. Anyway this good friend of mine is a Ruby on Rails Developer and a very good one at that.
So I quizzed him a bit about Rails to find out some info. Anyway one of the strong points of Rails is its plugins. They have loads and some really really good ones.
So got me thinking. From what I can see these plugins are all possible in Grails (if they don't already exist) so why don't we replicate them. The Rails guys are basically solving the same problems as the Grails guys and the fact that a Rails plugins exists means that it is a helpful tool to someone.
So anyway I am going to start this porting off. Here are some of my first targets:
http://github.com/
http://thoughtbot.com/
Next I guess I search for "Top 10 Rails plugins"
http://thetacom.info/2008/02/17/my-10-favorite-rails-plugins/
Pete :)
3 comments:
This is interesting, and I wonder if there are also features in Rails that merit a Grails port. I know Robert Fisher has been talking about a :through implementation for GORM.
I think it would be helpful for us non-Rails developers to have a porting guide like http://www.troymaxventures.com/2009/05/converting-legacy-rails-apps-to-grails.html
Hi Tomas
Good to meet you the other night a Gmock BTW>
Yep i think you right on the ball. There are probably lots of built in Rails features that could be ported. I guess for now the easiest way to do that porting is via a grails plugin. You can do lots in grails plugins. Probably only hardcore internals may need more deeper integration.
Those two plugins are pretty interesting.
I guess for other plugins that offer a functionality, probably there's already a library in java that offers that functionality, so it's just a matter of writing a thin groovy wrapper(for easier acess, better defaults, crazieness abstraction, etc).
Marc Palmer also has some input in the grails plugins status. http://www.anyware.co.uk/2005/
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