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The JHipster Mini-Book is a
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Found via Brian McCallister - a codefest grant has been awarded to Dave Tiu to reproduce the Display Tag in Ruby/Rails.
Codefest Grant recipients: 1. Ruby Displaytag (Dave Tiu) A port to Ruby/Rails of a popular Java/Struts library for displaying and interacting with HTML table presentations.
Maybe if I wait a little longer to write my first Rails app - they'll add client-side validation too. 
According to Rife founder Geert Bevin, Laszlo ain't all it's cracked up to be:
It's a shame, I really had huge expectations about Laszlo and even tried to sell it to a customer. I'm glad that project was cancelled or I would be in deep trouble.
Under normal circumstances, I'd dismiss this as FUD, but Geert sounds like he did his homework on this one.
