[ALUG] This is the ultimate in "object oriented" programming????

[Brett Parker]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:11:23PM +0000, cl at isbd.net wrote:
<snippity stuff="ror-template-example" />

Looked more or less like any other template I've seen, that's not where
the code should go, that's where the layout goes.

> I think the fundamental problem is that HTML is a mess, until such
> time as that can be hidden somehow then I think we're stuck with
> rubbish like the above.

If you get *really* bored, you could go the way of making things
generate XML and then just convert the XML with XSLT to get the HTML,
it'll still look ugly though.

> I was hoping that Ruby on Rails helped hide some of the above junk but
> apparently not.

It's not going to magically get rid of the need to know basic html -
that's the job of a CMS, not a webapp development platform. If you want
that style thing, take a look at Zope or Plone (which runs atop of
Zope), they may make more sense to you. (Or, hell, HippoCMS:
http://www.hippocms.org...).

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker