Do we have ruby/rails developer in the group? Could we have a dojo and to develop a web app with both ruby & clojure? And compare the pros & cons?

There's some discussion about that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/4f658a/the_state_of_clojure_web_development/

@sniperliuhao: I have many years of experience as a Rails dev

And would be happy to be a resource to the group for discussing such things 😃

@jethroksy: yes, I also read https://yogthos.net/posts/2016-04-17-state-of-web-clj-dev.html recently

(In response to the Arachne kickstarter which is getting attention)

@gabehollombe: indeed, as someone who has recently built a web app in clojure I can attest that I spend 80% of my time swapping out libraries and seeing which is the best fit 😛

the steering group is comprised of many experienced clojure devs, and I'm eager to see what they come up with

@gabehollombe: that's great! Could we think an interesting thing to develop? Or some web apps you have developed. And we do a dojo to re-implement in clojure.

@gabehollombe: you might give an app which is easier with ruby rails. And another which is difficult for ruby. We could try in clojure.

Good thoughts. Are you coming to the Onyx dojo on May 3?

@jethroksy: we could try some framework like Luminus, caribou etc. and avoid swapping libs too often. If needed, we even could compose a framework.

@gabehollombe: yes. Definitely will come. We could discuss.

great!

Luminus is good for dojos because the libraries are preselected. Caribou doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore unfortunately. I ended up putting together something with bidi, yada and aleph, but that's personal preference.