Comments on: RobotLegs AS3: A DI Driven MVCS Framework for Flash & Flex – Inspired by PureMVC

By: TehKai › AS3 Framework — Gaia

TehKai › AS3 Framework — Gaia — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:44:08 +0000

[...] is some new resources about using RobotLegs on top of Gaia This was written by admin. Posted on Thursday, September 3, 2009, at 11:18 am. [...]

By: Flex and Flash Developer – Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm » Blog Archive » How to Use RobotLegs On Top of Gaia: Part 1 of 3 – Quickstart

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:47:12 +0000

[...] following is a quick start guide on how to get RobotLegs working on top of the Gaia Flash Framework written by Steven Sacks. In later articles, I’ll [...]

By: shaun

shaun — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:19:25 +0000

Howdy 1ndivisible, we’re busy putting together some docs over here:

http://wiki.github.com/robotlegs/robotlegs-framework

(work in progress)

By: 1ndivisible

1ndivisible — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:07:08 +0000

Hi Shaun,

This looks really promising. Are you planning on releasing any docs a la PMVC Best Practices. Even a basic UML of the classes and their relationships would be really helpful.

By: shaun

shaun — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:18:49 +0000

Hi Rasheed, thanks for the thoughtful comment.

Building a framework for ActionScript akin to what Rails is to Ruby is exactly what I’m hoping will emerge from this experiment.

The only way to enable that, in my opinion, is to have a core that is well designed and testable – and we’re getting REALLY close I feel!

Join us over at the discussion group to have your say:

http://groups.google.com/group/robotlegs

By: Rasheed Abdul-Aziz

Rasheed Abdul-Aziz — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:44:25 +0000

You’ve invited comment, and I think that’s important. You’re open to being challenged, that’s more important. I think an ‘opinionated framework’ is really important and its time there was one for Flex (sorry I’m not too interested in flash) that is opinionated and is ready to justify choices based on good design.

I’d like to see something like the Rails community emerge here. I’m not going to switch from my makeshift, homespun, ‘good enough’ framework, which at least I know well enough, and have established patterns of use internally (to our business).. But if you make something good here, that’s testable, and provable against more than a ‘online pizza order RIA’ (the feeling I get with most RIA frameworks) that free’s up time to contribute back to the project, I (like others) are likely to fall in love. I suspect if Robert is as excited as he is, that this project must be well on its way.

Time for some screencasts.

By: Gerald Yeo

Gerald Yeo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:58:21 +0000

This looks promising. I like PureMVC for it’s minimalist architecture, but not the boilerplate codes I have to do. And I’m also getting acquainted with DI… and since RobotLegs is based on PMVC, I’m going to take this for a spin in future.

@Gert-Jan Thanks for the video link!

By: Techwave » Blog Archive » AS3 Dependency Injection Demystified

Techwave » Blog Archive » AS3 Dependency Injection Demystified — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:03:05 +0000

[...] frameworks that are implemented as Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection containers: Robotlegs: Want a framework like PureMVC but without Singletons, Service Locators, or casting? Perhaps one [...]

By: shaun smith » RobotLegs Updates, Demos and Unit Testing

shaun smith » RobotLegs Updates, Demos and Unit Testing — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:18:57 +0000

[...] really dislike PureMVC (probably for many of the same reasons that I started RobotLegs in the first place) and so have disregarded RobotLegs because it can be viewed as a rebuild of [...]

By: shaun

shaun — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:18:22 +0000

Hi Gert-Jan, awesome stuff. Will watch that talk soon – have a bit of a back-log of inspiring videos to watch at the moment!

Let me know how you find RL when you get the chance. The mvcs implementation is based on concepts from PureMVC – ie Mediators as opposed to Presenters – but I’m playing around with some ideas for an MVP implementation.

Keep me posted,
Cheers