Last night I went to my first NovaRUG (Northern Virginia Ruby User’s Group meeting. Held monthly, they brought a big name speaker in yesterday, Stuart Halloway. Stu is the co-founder of Relevance, a development and consulting company souly devoted to Rails. In his presentation, he talked about his development of Streamlined, a powerful rails development tool.
I thought I was impressed with the power of rails alone, but Streamlined takes it to the next level. Still in early development, Streamlined takes the already redudant-less rails and makes it even less redundant. Streamlined is built off assumptions that there are parts of using Ruby are just givens: having CRUD instruments for example. Using Streamlined, there’s no need to add any CRUD elements to any controller, it’s already there! In addition, the UI isn’t focused on making things pretty, that’s what designers are for, rather usability and practical functionality.
Viewing and editing information never became easier. As Stu and Justin Gehtland continue to develop Streamlined, third-party libraries will be integrated once their quaility and practicality has been tested. They are continuing to release new versions weekly.
What’s the coolest thing in this development aside from the amazing power it has? Stu and Justin implement new changes to Streamlined through a customer-driven method. Just because they think an addition is needed or a group of developers think so, major features are primarily added through a need of a client; proving the practiciality and usability of the product.
Check this stuff out!
Update:
You spelled “redundant” wrong.
Thanks! Fixed.