justinmaccarthy

I’m sure most of the Apple fan boys here have seen  Apples new improved .net offering, MobileMe.
It turns out that the MobileMe interface is built using an opensource  Ajax/Widget  toolkit called SproutCore.

Lets have a look on how you install SproutCore

sudo gem install sproutcore

Look familiar ?  View Helpers  are RHTML files e.g.

<%= label_view :my_label, :tag => ‘h1′, :inner_html => ‘Hello World!’ %>

The ruby stuff is only used in production, in a similiar way that GWT uses Java to generates the HTML and JS runtime files….

While SproutCore uses Ruby to generate static HTML and JavaScript files, you are not tied to Ruby or Rails in production.  SproutCore runs in the browser, your production system can use whatever backend you want, as long as it sends JSON to the browser.