Slingshot

presented by Scott Burton and Scott Barron

Resources:

http://developer.joynet.com

My Summary:

Slingshot is potentially a useful tool if you need to be able to have users work on and off-line. I look forward to seeing some of the issues that are of concern right now (conflict resolution on syncing up, for one) addressed in their first release.

My Notes:

Connection agnostic Rails apps
works off and on-line - syncs up when you're connected
drag files onto desktop

Updates to Slingshot -
Downloads app
runs data migrations
all done by itself (not quite there yet)

How to use:
drop in a rails app (source code is deployed to users)
write activerecord transport layer
deploy

Options to protect source code - encryption (not a good one if you want to protect IP)

running on desktop, latency from internet is gone, much more responsive

recommend at least rail 1.2.1

synchronization is based on timestamps

conflict resolution - not addressed

will be open-sourced in June

commercial version will have support and possibly other features