Le-Blog-à-Dam

On the 20th of May will be hold the Brussels barcamp . I will be meeting other Belgian rails developers there (and other people too) and I'll be giving a presentation of my work on the CONNIE Belgian Portal.

The CONNIE Belgian Portal is a web site developed using RubyOnRails which use most of the plugins I've developed and has some Web 2.0 features using the great Scriptaculous javascript library. I'll give a general overview of the portal and then proceed with presentation of the interesting features using Scriptaculous and how I integrate them in RubyOnRails in a way wich makes the site work even without javascript:

• the box shading and reordering tool,
• the javascript popup framework,
• the bookmark system.

I might also presents the plugins I've developed:

• RailsTidy and
• History.

I find these thing interesting to present as it shows how extensible the Rails framework is.

I could also talk about the use of the Globalize plugin to allow translation of RoR web applications, as it is particularly usefull in Belgium.