Level: Intermediate Robi Sen (robisen@gmail.com), Freelance Writer, Department13
12 May 2006 Explore at a high level how to develop a rich Internet application using OpenLaszlo, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and Eclipse to provide a common IDE to not only develop your application but also to automate many of the steps in developing a Rails or OpenLaszlo application. This will further speed up and streamline the already fast development cycle of Rails applications.
In this tutorial
This tutorial will expose you to two of the hottest platforms in Web development: Ruby on Rails, for fun and rapid Web application development; and OpenLaszlo, the open source RIA server. You will see that creating visually appealing desktop-like applications deployed and managed over the Web can be incredibly easy with these platforms. While this tutorial will not teach you Ruby or Laszlo, it will show how easy it is to use Rails with RIAs using the open source OpenLaszlo Presentation server and MySQL. It will also cover how to configure Eclipse to set up a Rails and Laszlo development environment, automate mundane tasks, and create a simple Laszlo client that interacts with Rails via a Representational State Transfer (REST) Web service.
Prerequisites
To get the most from this, you should have a basic understanding of programming, XML, and SQL.
System requirements
You will need the following tools: A system with at least 512 MB of RAM is also required.
Formats html, pdf
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