# Getting ahead of myself, GUIs **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 29, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659 "2006-12-29T18:26:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/1 "2006-12-29T18:26:23Z")
I know I may be getting ahead of myself since I don’t even have rails down yet, but I was looking for a nice web based GUI to pair with my rails projects in the future, ajax sure does look nice, but by god is it chunky and slow…are there any extremely light/fast alternatives to giving my projects some eye candy interfaces? ---
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/2 "2006-12-29T18:41:00Z")
Could always look into Adobe Flex there is a number of ways to integrate with Rails, remoting (i.e. WebOrb) and/or web services. Stuart On 12/29/06, Alexander Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > – > **[Dark ambient](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient)** > > Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-pla > The te... ---
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/3 "2006-12-29T18:49:05Z")
On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 18:26 +0100, Alexander Y. wrote: > I know I may be getting ahead of myself since I don’t even have rails > down yet, but I was looking for a nice web based GUI to pair with my > rails projects in the future, ajax sure does look nice, but by god is it > chunky and slow…are there any extremely light/fast alternatives to > giving my projects some eye candy interfaces? * * * it’s only as fast as your web services - if you are still in development mode and webrick, that isn’t going to be very fast. Craig ---
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/4 "2006-12-29T19:13:17Z")
Man, I hate Flash. But it is one of the only ways to create a rich GUI interface with live data. But I guess to do that you need Flash Media Server. I’m just starting to look at Flex(Why didn’t I before??!) and WebORB. And if I was developing an app on my own, I’d definitely look at the Red5 open source flash media server project. The Flex compiler is free, but their WYSIWYG interface is I think like $800, which is out of my price range for software. Also Actionscript sucks a$$. But if you need the kind of interactivity and immediate user interaction that Flash can give you, then you have to use it for now. kthxby ---
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/5 "2007-01-02T14:53:40Z")
> But if you need the kind of interactivity and immediate user > interaction that Flash can give you, then you have to use it for now. Would OpenLaszlo be any help? [http://www.openlaszlo.org/](http://www.openlaszlo.org/) ---
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/6 "2007-01-02T14:55:41Z")
The Rails plugin for openlaszlo is defunct. Project is no longer being continued and I don’t believe it’s current state was anywhere need completetion. Stuart On 1/2/07, paron [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > But if you need the kind of interactivity and immediate user > > interaction that Flash can give you, then you have to use it for now. > > Would OpenLaszlo be any help? [http://www.openlaszlo.org/](http://www.openlaszlo.org/) > > > – > **[Dark ambient](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient)** > > Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-pla > The te... ---
**Author:** ![disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@disparu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/disparu)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-ahead-of-myself-guis/80659/7 "2006-12-29T19:33:22Z")
On 12/29/06, Jason N. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Man, I hate Flash. But it is one of the only ways to create a rich GUI > interface with live data. But I guess to do that you need Flash Media > Server. To use Flex you need nothing outside of the end users to have Flash Player 9 installed. I’m just starting to look at Flex(Why didn’t I before??!) and WebORB. > And if I was developing an app on my own, I’d definitely look at the > Red5 open source flash media server project. > > The Flex compiler is free, but their WYSIWYG interface is I think like > $800, It’s Eclipse for Flex, but less then 800, I think 400 or 500. which is out of my price range for software. Also Actionscript > sucks a$$. Why does AS suck ? Can’t compare it to Ruby as far as design (not sure if that’s the right word) but AS3 now is officially a OOP language. The class api is pretty large also. Although I’m relatively new to even Ruby , AS is making a nice compliment to learning OOP in general. Stuart But if you need the kind of interactivity and immediate user > > > > > – > **[Dark ambient](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient)** > > Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-pla > The te...