jcrosby

var store = $.cloudkit;

store.boot({

  // booting the store reads the metadata on the server,
  // loads existing data, and configures the local store
  // for use

  success: function() {

jcrosby

Embracing Collaboration with JRuby and JavaScript

Description

As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use
JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby, we can embrace the shared
language of the web in a compelling way, building reusable libraries that work across the client
server boundary. By bridging Ruby to JavaScript using Rhino, we gain shared databases, including their
indexing strategies. We gain remote model discovery and shared client/server validation. We gain a
shared query language. And because it is JavaScript, we gain the entire web community as

jcrosby

require 'sinatra/base'
require 'sinatra/cloudkit'

class MyApp < Sinatra::Base
  register Sinatra::CloudKit

  set :admin_openid, 'http://joncrosby.me'
  mount :todos, :groups, :archives

  get '/myurl' do