# The competition?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 16, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556 "2006-01-16T11:50:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/1 "2006-01-16T11:50:26Z")

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The ‘gmail’ video seems really interesting:

[http://www.morfik.com/](http://www.morfik.com/)

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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/2 "2006-01-16T13:02:43Z")

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where is the ‘gmai’ video? besides it looks like a client javascript  
development .isnt rails a server side thing? or am i missing something  
obvious?

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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/3 "2006-01-16T14:02:58Z")

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Check out the video here:

[http://users.tpg.com.au/cdonges/](http://users.tpg.com.au/cdonges/)

I got it from a friend. Maybe they only sent it to beta testers?

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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/4 "2006-01-16T16:49:05Z")

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it looks like it allows you to make an application without the need  
for a web/db server. It then ‘synthesizes’ the code you created in  
this thing and then turns it into pure html/javascript/ajax

i dunno seems cool, but not sure how well it scales. depends on what  
you are trying to do. Plus this thing does not look intuitive at all.

adam

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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/5 "2006-01-16T14:30:04Z")

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It’s available in a zip file from the front page…  
[http://www.morfik.com/media/DesktopGmail.zip](http://www.morfik.com/media/DesktopGmail.zip)

- james

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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/6 "2006-01-17T01:27:46Z")

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_shudder_

Now that’s just frightening. MS Access rewritten to run on top of  
Javascript, and with Pascal replacing VB. I struggle to imagine a  
more hideous frankensteining of technologies.

Pete Y.

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**Author:** ![Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Christoph\_Donges](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christoph_Donges)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/the-competition/52556/7 "2006-01-19T15:26:30Z")

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I put up a review I did on Morfik if anyone’s interested:  
[http://mudabone.com/aietc/?p=346](http://mudabone.com/aietc/?p=346)