A Cookbook.

I’m happy to announce a new tutorial series “Your 12 Minutes of Apotomo” which will appear at least once per week, stealing up to 12 minutes of your worthy time per lesson in exchange for learning Apotomo.

Apotomo is stateful widgets for Ruby and Rails that help you keep your code clean and enrich your user interfaces with components.

And what do we do?

We’re gonna develop a small Todo app dumdidoo with Rails that utilizes a bunch of nifty Web 2.0 features, including

• dashboards with slots for widgets
• tab panel and more popular elements for a user-friendly GUI
• drag&drop everywhere
• AJAX pagination, form processing and file uploads

Sounds cool, what else?

This is not a JavaScript tutorial, it is all Ruby! From a software developer’s point-of-view you’re gonna learn about

• UI design with widgets
• component-oriented architecture
• event triggering in the browser and in your Ruby code
• event mapping from JS to Ruby
• statefulness and persistence vs. traditional Rails controllers
• unit- and functional tests for components
• YUI controls integration in your Rails app with Apotomo’s YUI widgets

Can we go?

The first lesson is right here.

And, please…

Open your mouth and post questions so we can discuss obscure things in the next lection. Also, don’t be shy and post “feature requests” (what you’d like the app to do) cause I need to know what you guys want.

We can implement proposed features in one of the following lessons.

Looking forward to the trip!

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