Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby / zenspider.com> wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2009, at 09:10 , Matt Neuburg wrote:
> 
> > RubyFrontier is a TextMate bundle. It implements a Web site framework
> > basically modelled after the UserLand Frontier Web site framework,
> > written in Ruby. In other words, it's a tool for writing and  
> > maintaining
> > Web sites.
> 
> This looks like really really good stuff. I kinda miss Frontier and  
> tried to model it a bit when I wrote zenweb way back when.

Wow. It's like a parallel universe! And of course Brent Simmons has done
his own rewrite of the Frontier Web site framework in Ruby, though he
hasn't released the code:

http://inessential.com/2009/01/30/new_publishing_system_tour_of_my_head

There are some *really* scary parallels between his thought processes
and mine...

> I also  
> really miss MORE and did my best to make sure that omnioutliner  
> approached MORE's level of writability for an outliner (I wrote all my
> college papers in MORE). I like Dave's software, but I just couldn't
> stand the guy. This bundle looks like a really good combination of mac
> technologies.

Interesting. I had a feeling that someone at Omni had some serious MORE
experience, but I didn't know who it was. BTW, considerably before that,
I was a college professor with all my lecture notes in MORE (and
previously I was using its predecessor ThinkTank). OmniOutliner plays an
important optional role in RubyFrontier (via OPML), but I don't
demonstrate it in the movie. I suppose what I'd really like for
RubyFrontier is to turn TextMate itself into an outliner, but I don't
quite see how to do it.

> Good job.
> 
> Your video also reminded me that I have you to thank for the rb- 
> appscript pages and examples. They saved me a lot of time (as well as
> subsequently stumbling upon ASTranslate--wonderful). Thank you.

Cool, thanks! m.