Which are the best frameworks that better integrates with Rails to easily develop RIA backends?
In different projects I’ve used, beside others, jQuery and Sencha Extjs (with various working or nearly working gems that tried to integrate rails and the javascript).
I’ve highlighted those two frameworks because in my opinion are the Alpha and Omega of frameworks that could be used:
- jQuery is well known and documented but it has the basics controls that should be assembled to provide a decent dashboard,
- Sencha ExtJs gave me the impression that I was just rewriting the entire application, adding a layer of unwanted complexity.
So the question is: is there anything that sits in the middle of the two?
You can try http://dojotoolkit.org/
It has a lot of controls like Charts, Grids, RichText editors , diffrent layout controls etc..
You can check their demo site http://dojotoolkit.org/features/graphics-and-charting