Re: SQL on Rails???

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:37, David J Patrick wrote:
> I'll bet that with a railified sql-ledger it would be a snap to cobble
> together a touchscreen POS interface..

What would the requirements be for a touchscreen POS interface?

Why not a XUL(or straight DHTML) + SL-BASE/bin/ajax/(ct|io|ar|ap).pl,  that 
exposed some 'ajaxian' methods that the XUL app could call?

My setup doesn't need a POS feature (yet), but this is the technique I'm 
employing with with my customized version for some interactive functions 
added to bin/mozilla.  All the javascript has to do is examine the path= 
paramater, and change it from bin/mozilla to bin/ajax, and it can figure out 
where it needs to be. 

As an added bonus:
* I get the security + cookie management from Form.pm
* 'fits' into the sql-ledger model
*  Most upgrades from the stock sql-ledger are a snap
* I still can apply most of publically available support and patches to my 
setup.

I think flash has a XmlHTTP object too, you could build a Shockwave flash 
interface over an interface like this too.

Not a shot against Rails, I  think it's pretty neat.  I too support SL part 
time, but after staring @ the momentous work of 2 [aborted] major 
rewrites/overrides I tried (to be more mod_perlish) I finally arrived at the 
attitude of "I don't have the resources to maintain a big rewrite, lets just 
go with the flow ..."

Jason


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