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Posted by
Tom | December 24, 2006 comments 12 Responses

Well it feels great to finally have Hobo out there. We’ve had about 800-900 visits to the site since the launch, 32 downloads of the gem, and who-knows-how-many downloads from the subversion repository because svnserve doesn’t seem to log anything :-)

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Hobo Released!
Posted by
Tom | December 22, 2006 comments 12 Responses

And there’s even a screencast :-) This is an early beta - version 0.4.0 You are NOT recommended to use this in an application on the open Internet. You are strongly recommended to play around with it!

What is Hobo?

  • Hobo extends Rails is a number of ways, to let you build full blown web applications very quickly and easily.

  • Hobo lets you add dynamic Ajax interfaces to your application with no extra programming.

  • Hobo gives your application switchable themes, so you can have an elegant design right out of the box.

Who is it for?

  • Hobo can speed up the creation of rich, complex web applications as well as simple internal apps and rapid prototypes.

  • Hobo is a great way for newcomers to Ruby on Rails to learn and practice agile, iterative application development.

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Ajax, Hobo Style
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Tom | December 5, 2006 comments 18 Responses

OK, next up we’re going to see what Hobo brings to the Ajax table. In a nutshell — the ability to refresh fragments of a page without pushing them out into separate partial files. To see how that works, let’s knock up a quick demo application.

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