# Laszlo on Rails underway **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/laszlo-on-rails-underway/57574 "2006-04-12T04:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mperham)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/laszlo-on-rails-underway/57574/1 "2006-04-12T04:16:53Z")
If you have an interest in providing rich web interfaces for your applications beyond the abilities of DHTML, including audio and video, you may want to join me and 225 other developers on the Laszlo on Rails project. Our Google group is at [http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails](http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails). Be a part of something that will be featured in a talk at RailsConf – join us! [http://railsconf.org/talks/selected/show/86](http://railsconf.org/talks/selected/show/86) Mike P. ---
**Author:** ![mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mperham)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/laszlo-on-rails-underway/57574/2 "2006-04-12T10:34:17Z")
very exciting stuff! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mperham)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/laszlo-on-rails-underway/57574/3 "2006-04-12T13:17:32Z")
Mike \> you may want to join me and 225 other developers on the Laszlo on Rails \> project. Excuse my ignorance, butI just gave a look at [http://www.openlaszlo.org/](http://www.openlaszlo.org/) , and the contents of the “view source” page scared me to death : [http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lzpix-source/](http://labs.openlaszlo.org/lzpix-source/) Programming in XML?! Arggggghhh. Is Laszl On Rails much different? Alain ---
**Author:** ![mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mperham)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/laszlo-on-rails-underway/57574/4 "2006-04-12T13:33:04Z")
On 12 Apr 2006, at 13:15, Alain R. wrote: > Programming in XML?! Arggggghhh. > Is Laszl On Rails much different? That’s why I gave up on Laszlo (although you can clearly program nice stuff with it): ? XML programming (yuck) ? JavaScript (although I’d rather call it ECMAScript, because it’s more of a mixture between JavaScript and ActionScript) as development language (even more yuck) ? Flash makes the cooling fans of my PowerBook 867 go wild after just a few minutes and tends to make Safari as stable as Windows 95 release 1 I’d love to know if Laszlo on Rails is at least going to eliminate the first two arguments as to why I’m not using it. Best regards Peter De Berdt ---
**Author:** ![mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mperham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mperham)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/laszlo-on-rails-underway/57574/5 "2006-04-13T02:12:06Z")
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:16:53AM +0200, Mike P. wrote: > If you have an interest in providing rich web interfaces for your > applications beyond the abilities of DHTML, including audio and video, > you may want to join me and 225 other developers on the Laszlo on Rails > project. Your post is the first I’ve heard of Laszlo. After taking a quick look at Laszlo I’m impressed. Now if Laszlo on Rails achieves the elegance and beauty of Ruby on Rails it could be very exciting. Is the project’s goal to add Laszlo functionality to Ruby on Rails or to create a completely separate framework? I hope it’s the former instead of the latter. If the goal is to create a completely separate Rails framework please tell me it will be Ruby-based and not XML/JavaScript-based. > Our Google group is at [http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails](http://groups.google.com/group/laszlo-on-rails). Hummm, is the Laszlo community not behind Laszlo on rails? [http://www.OpenLaszlo.org/lists](http://www.OpenLaszlo.org/lists) would seem to be a more logical home for a Laszlo related e-mail list. If both the Laszlo and Rails communities get behind Laszlo on Rails we may end up with a very impressive product. Kevin [http://www.RawFedDogs.net](http://www.RawFedDogs.net) [http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org](http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org) Bruceville, TX