Hello. We have RoR application and we are planning to make js interface(extjs or closure) in new version. Is it possible to use GWT with RoR?
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I'm not that familiar with GWT but I guess in theory it's possible to use GWT cross compile Java into JavaScript which is then used within a Rails application. It sounds pretty cumbersome though.
John Topley
2010-07-21 13:46:54
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You can, but you won't have the nice RPC mechanism available with java based servers. You'll probably have to use RequestBuilder class to pass data to the server & back.
Bogdan
2010-07-21 13:54:28
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Yes, using GWT with RoR is perfectly possible. Client server communication will be by JSON, which RoR can easily produce. GWT works best when you're creating a client side app in HTML/JavaScript/CSS, if you want progressive enhancement of an existing HTML UI jQuery etc. might be a better choice.
Although gwt-query (http://code.google.com/p/gwtquery/) has been getting a lot of updates recently, so that might be worth checking out too.
Arthur Kalmenson
2010-07-22 02:37:40
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The http://code.google.com/p/gwt-rails/ project is intended to provide easy to use RPC between RoR backend, and GWT UI.
Jayfang
2010-08-05 09:57:13