Ruby on Rails Oceania

When?

Tuesday, 11th March 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Where?

Moores Brecknock Hotel – 401 King William Street, Adelaide.

NOTE The Kitchen’s closed at the Brecknock due to renovations. However, Bar’s still open and we still have use of the projector – so same old same old…

We’ll try and start more “on time-ish” and for any hungry railers interested we’ll organise to go for pizza afterwards somewhere nearby.

What? ExtJS!

ExtJS is an OpenSource javascript framework with ALL the bells and whistles – their tag line is “Documentation. Design. Clean Code. A foundation you can build on”.

If you’re already using Prototype/Scriptaculous – don’t worry – it can use those libs (adapted to via an adapter) or alternatively, use Yahoo UI!, JQuery or it’s own internal lib.

Anthony Richardson will present on the progress of a rails OpenSource ExtJS plugin that he and Alex (amongst other people) are working on.

Specifically he’ll be presenting on:

• the work he’s done on the integration of ExtJs layouts ( example layout http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/layout/complex.html ) and Rails layouts/views.
• Hooking the Rails rendering process to inject divs and javascript code automatically.
• “compiling” layout definitions into a single large javascript file to reduce each requests size.
• extacting embedded ruby within the ExtJs layouts to execute on each request and passed as parameters to the layouts precompiled and already on the client machine.

Also, he can demo some other Extjs plugins to give an idea of where their plugin is going. Plus, a refresher on the grid code that Alex did that is currently being rewritten by Alex to make more Rails like (he did a brief demo at the end of a meeting a few months ago).

Also Alex is interested in talking about:

• A brief overview of extjs’s features and why you might want to choose it over the other frameworks
• The Grid, and how the next version is going to work.