The MysteryCoder has written up a little article discussing one often missed feature in Rails - Tapestry style components.
In it he discusses some of the features he misses in WebObjects/Tapestry style components such as re-usable view logic, component composition and binding parameters.
I know another rails developer (who I’ll leave anonymous to save him from the shame of being associated with java 
) that also wanted a way to create Tapestry style components in Rails but I’ve not heard him mention that side project again so I’m assuming it still hasn’t been done.
Does anyone know of any ruby projects that might help save MysteryCoder some time / effort before he gets too far trying to develop something like this? (or reasoning that shows how Rails doesn’t need this particular component feature?)
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Feb 5th, 2008 at 11:29 am
yeah, I did start something but it sucked so I decided to start over and never did… its now one of those deleted google code projects…
I might write a merb plugin to do components in ruby the Right(TM) way, since I feel like supporting that project… adding a 5th alias method chain to rendering in rails just makes my stomach hurt