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#1 2007-01-14 17:56:00

aoeoae
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TextPattern on Rails

Has there ever been any effort or talk on creating a new TextPattern written in Ruby on Rails, along with AJAXified elements?

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#2 2007-01-14 18:16:11

Walker
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Re: TextPattern on Rails

blah. why do you need RoR to do ajaxified.

Also, do you know the hosting requirements of RoR, it would be a nightmare. Textpattern would only work on a few hosts. More hosts out there support php that ruby. It would cut off 80% of the user base.

Also, it would add so much weight to the application. Writing a hosted app with a framework is reasonable, it’s just running there, but if you wrote something like textpattern with a framework, you would be adding a whole host of requirements and extra downloads (and size).

Last edited by Walker (2007-01-14 18:17:17)

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#3 2007-01-14 21:18:44

zem
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-04-08
Posts: 2,579

Re: TextPattern on Rails

..and CPU and memory usage.

More importantly: what problem would RoR and/or AJAX solve?


Alex

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#4 2007-01-15 06:12:54

Mary
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Registered: 2004-06-27
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Re: TextPattern on Rails

Has there ever been any effort or talk on creating a new TextPattern written in Ruby on Rails…?

The answer is: no, there hasn’t.

I don’t know that the work of porting the application would be worth it to anyone.

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#5 2007-02-07 00:21:01

davidkypuros
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Registered: 2007-01-09
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Re: TextPattern on Rails

Here is an effort by Australia’s hippist dude, Justin.

http://textthing.com/home/

Don’t know if it’s what your lookin’ for.

Last edited by davidkypuros (2007-02-07 00:29:34)

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#6 2007-02-07 14:22:16

kevinpotts
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Registered: 2004-12-07
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Re: TextPattern on Rails

Textthing sounded great in theory when Justin first started talking about it, but the one-man show has essentially ground to a halt. There have been no updates in a year and a half.

My ultimate dream CMS is something like Textthing. I just want to be able to create multiple directories with static content for my corporate clients. Why Textpattern makes a structure like www.site.com/section/subsection/subsubsection/title-of-article nearly impossible is beyond me. The functionality is a no-brainer.


Kevin
(graphicpush)

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#7 2007-02-07 15:18:09

hakjoon
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From: Arlington, VA
Registered: 2004-07-29
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Re: TextPattern on Rails

That sort of structure is being worked on for 4.1 I believe.


Shoving is the answer – pusher robot

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#8 2007-02-08 01:57:25

Mary
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Re: TextPattern on Rails

What seems easy and was is easy are not always the same thing, and here, it is certainly not. But yes, it is in the works.

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