I was just clued in a moment ago about another set of mentions of SproutCore.

The first by ars technica:

While Adobe and Microsoft try to position their respective plugin technologies as platforms for creating web-based applications, SproutCore can deliver deliver it directly in the browser without any additional downloads. SproutCore: rich web apps in JavaScript, no Flash Needed

The second by the New York Times:

Apple is introducing MobileMe — its set of Web-based applications — using an open source tool for programmers called SproutCore — which is meant to make it easier to make Web pages handle data quickly. Stunts Today for Firefox. Sophisticated Programs Tomorrow

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Ubuntu has taken a stand against making it easy for developers to install libraries using systems like Ruby Gems which can interfere with apt-get, so simply running sudo gem install sproutcore won’t always work.  Never fear, the community is here.

Tim Anderson explains everything you need to do to install sproutcore on Ubuntu.

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whump says:

While SproutCore uses Ruby to generate static HTML and JavaScript files, you are not tied to Ruby or Rails in production.

SproutCore runs in the browser, your production system can use whatever backend you want, as long as it sends JSON to the browser.

This is true, though you could use any format; not just JSON.  JSON is faster though because it is simpler in structure. Most browsers I tested could parse incoming JSON 10x faster than they could setup DOM for XML.

Anyway, whump’s post is a good clarification about using SproutCore with non-ruby backends from someone who has been there.

Read Dispelling Some Confusion About SproutCore

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