Zaheed,
All great questions. My answers will be vague, since I'm still in
the early stages of how this will work, but I'll provide what I can
below....
On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Zaheed Haque wrote:
1. Are you thinking of any user/password/my page/settings what not...
for folksonomy/tagging etc..? i.e. user management/login logout etc?
or you think the end provider should do this customization after
downloading the app
First the application will be purely read-only, as the search and
facet views get refined. I see the tagging/annotating feature added
much later, after the read-only stuff is good enough.
But, definitely, for tagging there will need to be user management
features, a relational database, and various customizations. How we
build this into Flare remains to be seen. I view the Flare
application as a starting point, with the core functionality made as
Rails plugins that could be added to any Rails application.
2. Will the rails app be language independent? i.e. using plugins like
globalize, localize etc?
That's certainly a laudable goal. So yeah, i18n-savvy would make sense.
3. Have you given any thought regarding Erubis an alternative to ERB
.. Its a matter of speed..
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/erubis/
This would be a later optimization. I've not had any problems with
ERB itself, so pulling in Erubis doesn't seem an immediate need.
Again, Flare the web application will be a good starting point for
folks that don't want to build a front-end themselves, but putting
the functionality into plugins would allow folks to plug in the
features into an existing Rails application.
We also have to consider the Apache Software License compatibility
with any other libraries we pull in, at least for it to be in our
repository.
4. Also are you thinking of any admin tool like (streamlined
http://streamlined.relevancellc.com/ ) for managing the UI
applications?
Streamlined would make since for the administrative interface, I
think. I'm good pals with Stu and Justin, and will be seeing them
later this month. I'll discuss it with them then.
The above is actually somewhat true for any application on the web.. I
just want to know will flare address the above .. or are you thinking
that the "End developer i.e. one who will download flare" will do
the above.. Or I guess better question would be "Will flare be a
complete download and go app" or somewhat "app that needs modification
further" :=).. of course anyone can customize anything its open..
I think I covered this above. We'll have to all see how it evolves.
I don't have it all planned out in my head, and that is one reason I
kick started this publicly to solicit the collective expertise of the
Solr/Ruby community.
I appreciate your feedback... I know I have more questions.. :=) if
you prefer I can send you mail directly..
Let's keep it here for all to see and participate in.
Thanks for your interest and questions. I look forward to us all
making solrb/Flare be the stuff we can't live without!
Erik
