Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

ROR GURU Needed | Martoli

Raphael — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:08:01 +0000

JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a well-seasoned Ruby or PHP Guru who has the aspiration to partner with our team of successful entrepreneurs and join our agile startup. We are creating a revolutionary social e-commerce platform and intend to release a Beta version as soon as possible.
Our Scrum backlog is ready to be taken on by a dedicated individual who will be able to build the product and participate in its direction.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Mandatory:
• Experience with framework–based development
• Agile development
• Experience with system management ( Unix, Windows, etc… )
• Strong sense of organization and discipline.
OTHER SKILLS
• Passionate and curious, excellent problem solver
• Good communication skills, great team player
• Does not overcomplicate simple concepts
• Recognizes the importance of a good user interface
Technology you must be familiar with:
- Ruby / PHP
- Relational Databases
- AJAX
- CSS

Workplace perks!
We offer a fun, fast-paced supportive and team-oriented environment with awesome contemporary offices on bustling St-Laurent Boulevard. You’ll enjoy flexible work hours and our popular BeerTender. Your work will be rewarded with company stock and competitive benefits.
If this sounds like the perfect challenge, please tell us why you are the perfect candidate and send your resume to raphael.ettore@martoli.ca and we’ll quickly get in touch.

Haml for Drupal

mcantelon — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:10:47 +0000

For any fans of Haml out there, I've submitted a filter module that leverages phpHaml: http://drupal.org/project/haml

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

So, which one you choose if..

anele — Mon, 07 May 2007 15:01:21 +0000

Hi guys,

By now I think have read most of the posts that exist regarding differences between RoR and Drupal.
But in practice, which one would you use if you wanted for example to create a website like youTube, where users would be able to form communities, upload and share media files?

My first impression is for Drupal, since in this occassion you would need a strong CMS... But, does anybody have any further suggestions?

Thanks for your time

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

Railsish Drupalism?

mcantelon — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:00:41 +0000

Hi folks,

What kind of Railish Drupal tools exist? There is Drake (http://drupal.org/project/drake) which I definitely want to check out. What else is there?

Mike

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

DrupalCampNYC 2

nonecknoel — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:52:04 +0000

To my dear New York City, Drupalistas and soon to be Druaplistas,

We are two weeks away from DrupalCamp NYC 2, 20 & 21 Jan. A few of us have been thinking what if we concentrated our efforts on a single project instead of working solely on individual projects? I'm not talking about a classroom setting, but a project (ie install profile, module stuff and theme) to educate each other?

Well here is your opportunity to change the future of one lucky group. Big or small, non-profit or community organization... If you know of a project that can use the assistance of a Drupal site, we need you to nominate them. The lucky organization will also get one year of CivicSpace on Demand (hosted and managed install of Drupal 4.7 and CiviCRM + EMAIL)!

How does this work?
If you have a session you want to covered, add it to the session page.

If you want a new website...

First - The site must need one or all of the following solutions.
* Raise money online
* Send blast email/e-newsletters
* Manage a community website
* Maintain an advanced supporter donor database

Second - The organization must send an outline of site features or a copy of an RFP and contact information to DrupalCamp's coordinators - email drupalcamp [at] noneck [dot] org .

Third - The organization must send a representative to DrupalCamp NYC 2 whom must be in attendance to answer any questions at the start of DrupalCamp on Saturday, 20 January.

Fourth - If you don't know of anyone; forward this to your friends....

I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK OUR SPONSORS....
* Polytechnic University
* CivicSpace on Demand
* Manhattan Neighborhood Network
* Lullabot
* Chapter Three, LLC
* ......you?..... (we need a pledge of $300 to cover dinner on saturday & sunday - contact noel to be a sponsor. )

See you on at DrupalCamp NYC 2!!!

CiviCRM

Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Drupal, what is the difference?

Bèr Kessels@drupal.org — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:12:27 +0000

A lot of people just don't get it. So let us straighten out some confusing matters. So to avoid more FUD.

Don't confuse Ruby with Drupal. Don't think that Ruby on Rails and Drupal can be compared, they cannot. On top of that, they are complementary.

There is Ruby. Ruby is just another programming-language, like Perl, PHP, C or Java. Ruby is one of the newest languages (~14 years old), which -in practice- means it has learned a lot from bad parts of older languages.

There is Ruby on Rails (RoR). This is a system (program) written in the language Ruby. Just like Drupal is written in PHP. But RoR is a framework, not a CMS; With RoR you will have to write your own CMS all by yourself. Drupal already IS a CMS. Ruby on Rails's power (and hype) lies in the fact that writing that complete CMS takes you only a few days, or even just hours. Drupal's power lies in the fact that you don't have to write anything at all.

Conclusion: comparing Ruby with Drupal is like comparing Christmas trees and oranges. Comparing Ruby on Rails and Drupal is like comparing apples and oranges.

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

Rails and Drupal are Complementary

dasil003@drupal.org — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:41:09 +0000

I've been using Ruby on Rails for at least 18 months, and it is an amazing application framework. However, it's not suitable for all projects. For one thing, hosting is much more demanding and less mature. If you don't have at least $50/month for a VPS or equivalent you are not going to get the reliability you can get with PHP relatively cheaply.

The other thing is that Rails is geared primarily towards applications. In terms of arbitrary functionality, Rails is really the best thing going. It gives the web app developer tools to create raw web interfaces very very efficiently. Probably more efficiently than is even possible in PHP due to Ruby's dynamic language features like method_missing? and dynamic class modification.

However, most websites aren't applications. The majority of clients don't have the budget to build something from scratch (even if Rails makes that development 5 times faster). Content management is one of the most common needs of clients. Drupal's node-based architecture is not as flexible as a generic MVC framework, but its a more specific solution to an extremely common problem. Given the range of modules for Drupal, you can set up full-featured sites right out of the box.

However, all this built-in functionality exacts a cost in complexity. Drupal is an amazing architecure, but it can never be as easy to customize as Rails without fundamentally changing what it is. Rails, likewise, can't really implement anything like a Drupal module. Rails has Plugins, Components, Engines, and Code Generators, but none of these things work as seamlessly as Drupal modules, because Rails doesn't dictate any architecture beyond MVC and some basic hooks on that theme.

I'm still fairly new to Drupal, so my understanding doesn't run deep enough to outline where Drupal could steal ideas from Rails effectively (I know there are plenty). But I do know that Drupal is providing an indispensable tool for probably half of my clients, whereas Rails is a better fit for 25%, with the other 25% better off with a variety of other more lightweight tools that I use. I don't see them really competing at all.

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

Just RoR?

styro — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:38:55 +0000

Maybe this should be a general "stealing good ideas from other web frameworks" group?

As well as RoR, I'm sure there are plenty of other worthy ideas in Turbogears, CakePHP, Django etc etc. Probably not many Java ones though ;) (just kidding - I work for a Java based outfit)

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal

Capistrano and Drupal

Bèr Kessels@drupal.org — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:12:34 +0000

Using Capistrano for Drupal deploying. Sounds cool, and should be possible. Lets talk about hos this should be done, and if this is feasible.
I plan to drop the sympal-scripts -which, in fact want to be a capistrano-only-for-drupal-in-PHP- in favour of a good working capistrano drupal thingie.

Ruby (on rails) for Drupal