ANNOUNCE: Hobo 0.4 - The web app builder for Rails

Rails
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(Apologies if this post appears twice - the Google G. web
interface seems to have dumped my first attempt)

Hi All,

Just letting you know I’ve made the first release of Hobo - version
0.4, MIT license

Get Hobo, and watch the screencast of building a complete app in five
minutes, at:

 http://hobocentral.net

What is Hobo?

– Hobo extends Rails in a number of ways, to let you build full
blown web applications very quickly and easily.

– Hobo lets you add dynamic Ajax interfaces to your application with
no extra programming.

– Hobo gives your application switchable themes, so you can have an
elegant design right out of the box.

Hobo features:

– DRYML, an extension to ERB with user-defined tags.

– A generic controller that eliminates almost all controller code.

– Various active-record extensions, including a declarative
permission system.

– Much more

Who is it for?

– Hobo can speed up the creation of rich, complex web applications
as well as simple internal apps and rapid prototypes.

– Hobo is a great way for newcomers to Ruby on Rails to learn and
practice agile, iterative application development.

Enjoy!

  • Tom
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Hi~

On Dec 22, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Tom L. wrote:

five minutes, at:

permission system.

  • Tom

Hey Tom-

Very cool project. I just perused the codebase and you must have

worked a while setting this whole thing up. Definitely cool.

Cheers-
– Ezra Z.
– Lead Rails Evangelist
– [email protected]
– Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting
– (866) 518-YARD (9273)

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Tom L. wrote:

– Various active-record extensions, including a declarative
permission system.

– Much more

Wow! Just watched the screencast. I really like the extensions to
migration syntax. Seems much DRYer.

Permissions system has the features needed by most applications. Not
sure it if hits the 80/20 rule yet. I did not see a password email
feature. I will need to download and test.

I expect to watch this closely.

Keep up the good work.

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Interesting. Haven’t downloaded it yet, but I’ll have to check out how
you’re handling the themes/views. Guessing this isn’t engines based, but
perhaps copying theme templates into the app directory?

On 12/22/06, Tom L. [email protected] wrote:

Get Hobo, and watch the screencast of building a complete app in five
no extra programming.
– Various active-record extensions, including a declarative
practice agile, iterative application development.

Enjoy!

  • Tom

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The authentication is done with the acts_as_authenticated plugin, which
is integrated into Hobo. The mailer isn’t integrated as yet, but you
could just install AAA and run the authenticated_mailer generator. It
might work out of the box, but it might need a bit of tweaking.

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Really nice Tom! Great work! I have a 1 quick q … any plans for
localization i.e. integrating plugins like Globalize or localize?

Cheers.
Zaheed

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any plans for
localization i.e. integrating plugins like Globalize or localize?

Localisation is not a personal priotry right now, but I’m sure it’s an
issue I’m going to hit before too long. If this is something you need,
It would be great if you could take a look and see how it might be
integrated. Hobo will definitely need to support localisation in the
future.

Tom

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Guessing this isn’t engines based, but
perhaps copying theme templates into the app directory?

Correct - not using engines.

The theme system is built around dryml - i.e. user defined tags.

For example, the app developer uses … in their
templates, and each theme defines how these are rendered in html and
css. In the tabla theme, you get panels with rounded corners and
drop-shadows.

Tom

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On 12/23/06, Tom L. [email protected] wrote:

templates, and each theme defines how these are rendered in html and
css. In the tabla theme, you get panels with rounded corners and
drop-shadows.

Tom

What version of Rails / Ruby are you developing under? It doesn’t work
on my
specs:

Rails 1.1.6
Ruby 1.8.5

Error:
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:49:in
`test_condition’: Valid criteria are strings, regular expressions, true,
or
nil (ArgumentError)

Happens in Hobo.add_routes

Jason