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googlecreativelab / coder

A simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi
http://goo.gl/coder
Apache License 2.0
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Ruby Support #10

Closed CMDann closed 10 years ago

CMDann commented 10 years ago

Is it possible to add Ruby on Rails support to Coder?

WebReflection commented 10 years ago

I don't think makes sense to ask for PHP, Ruby, Python, and every programming language out there ... you can boot to a webserver in a very easy way in Raspberry Pi, no need to do everything via coder.

Coder uses a very specific environment maybe you should learn how to be familiar with? Specially since everything you can do with PHP, Ruby and others, could be done with Coder too except all you need to learn is just JavaScript for both client and server.

IMO

CMDann commented 10 years ago

I agree however I really like the coder interface and I would love to be able to use php and ruby directly on it. This is not a deterring factor for me, I just think it would be an awesome addition.

jmstriegel commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! At this time, development effort is focusing on Node. Everything's open source, though, so you're welcome to experiment with adapting the UI concepts to a different environment.

Most of these limitations are to keep Coder ridiculously simple for first-time users, and Node seemed like a suitable on-ramp for introducing back-end code. One of the cool things about imposing some over-simplicity (ie. 1 html, 1 css, 1 js, 1 node.js), is that everything in Coder can be designed in the same way. As a user learns more, they can see (or change) how it all works. If you look under the hood, everything from auth to the editor -- all of those programs are standard Coder apps (and were completely edited and created within Coder).

CMDann commented 10 years ago

I can respect this, I just really like the idea of a platform like this that you can learn about a whole pile of different languages.