[Rails] widgets and columns like on the Google home page?

2008-12-14 Thread Stedwick
Does anybody know how to make widgets that you can drag and drop between columns like on the Google homepage? Tutorials, JavaScript libraries, and especially rails plug-ins would be most helpful. Thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you ar

[Rails] Re: communicating between multiple rails applications?

2008-12-03 Thread Stedwick
Thanks! I read your presentation and some of your source code. You guys definitely planned well from the start. It will be a little bit harder for us without any planning, but it's definitely doable. I had no idea that ActiveResource was so awesome! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[Rails] communicating between multiple rails applications?

2008-12-01 Thread Stedwick
Short story: My company has a rails application as our product. As we add more functionality, we are thinking of building new small, self-contained rails applications rather than just chugging along with our single monolithic application that we have right now. What is the best way to do this? I

[Rails] alternative to Google maps?

2008-09-26 Thread Stedwick
at my company we want to add mapping to our application, and while Google maps is clearly the most awesome mapping API on the planet, the terms and conditions dictate that it must be free to all users. We are thinking this means that we must either use some other mapping software, or be sure to ma