Low Pro - not ready for prime time?
November 19, 2007 – 6:16 pmFor those who haven’t seen it, Low Pro is a Javascript library that makes progressive enhancement much easier for Rails apps. It’s supposed to be dead simple - just drop a couple of scripts into your public/javascripts folder, code your app as if there were no AJAX involved, and add a couple of behaviors. Low Pro is just what I need for an app that I’m currently working on.
Unfortunately, it - or at least a sizeable chunk of it - isn’t currently working, and I don’t have the time to dig into the problems. I’m using Edge (both Rails and Low Pro), and I can’t even get Remote.Link to work (and that’s with a fix pointed out here and squashing a typo-caused bug in remote.js). As much as I’d love to use LP, I just can’t currently spend the time it looks like it would take. Maybe I’ll check back in a few weeks and see if it’s a little more solid out-of-the-box, but for now I guess I’m sticking with the tried and true (and intrusive) Javascript helpers.
5 Responses to “Low Pro - not ready for prime time?”
Hi Ben,
We just started up a new Low Pro wiki and mailing list: http://lowprojs.com/
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/low-pro?hl=en
I believe an update to the main code base is on the way.
By Martin on Nov 20, 2007
Thanks, Martin! I’ve joined the group - hopefully things’ll get moving again soon.
By Ben on Nov 20, 2007
As you know Prototype 1.6 changed a huge amount of stuff internally (especially in event handling - which is where Low Pro does a lot of its work) so large changes were required to Low Pro to come in line with this. Most of these involved deleting huge chunks of code from Low Pro which I was most pleased about. However, 1.6 has been a moving target (RC0 is really different to 1.6 final) so it was necessary to wait until it stopped moving before I could even begin work on Low Pro.
What I’m trying to say is - I’m on it. Watch this space - theres going to be an official release of the new version really soon.
By Dan Webb on Nov 21, 2007
That’s great to hear, Dan - thanks!
By Ben on Nov 21, 2007
Yay for Dan!
By Dr Nic on Nov 21, 2007