MasterView Template Plugin/Gem

Jeff Barczewski, jeffb (at) inspiredhorizons.com

Deb Lewis, djlewis (at) acm.org

http://masterview.org/ - MasterView home

http://rubyforge.org/projects/masterview - Rubyforge project

• WYSIWYG + Designer friendly
• HTML prototype to live, edit through life cycle
• Extensible user defined directives
• Scaffolding capability
• Installs as Rails plugin, has documentation!

MasterView Template Plugin/Gem

In the Business of Rails session

• Discussed the difficulties of working with designers
• Joe O'Brien summed up: We, as Rails developers, need to take design seriously.
• However designers are often better than developers at web design, but many do not understand Rails and prefer to use their own (HTML) tools
• Business users often need to work with design, edit minor things, legal review
• Dry up your views

MasterView Template Plugin/Gem

Why burden the developer with these types of activies?

Why code these things manually?

MasterView allows you to

• Utilize all of your team's skills
• Use tools that make web design easy (this is even great for single person team developers)
• Separation of roles

The MasterView project provides a solution to the problem of working with designers and html tools.

Click here for screencast demonstration - (4:30 25MB) Flash Video
Demonstrates taking static html prototype files, adding directives to make live, and editing with WYSIWYG editor to see instant changes in live app.