sproutit-sproutcore 1.0.0.20090407205609

SproutCore is a platform for building native look-and-feel applications on the web. This Ruby library includes a copy of the SproutCore JavaScript framework as well as a Ruby-based build system called Abbot. Abbot is a build system for creating static web content. You can supply Abbot with a collection of JavaScript, HTML, CSS and image files and it will combine the files into a bundle that are optimized for efficient, cached deliver directly from your server or using a CDN. Some of the benefits of using Abbot versus assembling your own content include: * Easy maintenance. Organize your source content in a way that is useful for you without impacting performance on loaded apps. * Automatically versioned URLs. Serve content with long expiration dates while Abbot handles the cache invalidation for you. * Dependency management. Divide your code into frameworks; load 3rd party libraries. Abbot will make sure everything loads in the correct order. * Packing. Combines JavaScript and CSS into single files to minimize the number of resources you download for each page. Although Abbot is intended primarily for building Web applications that use the SproutCore JavaScript framework, you can also use it to efficiently build any kind of static web content, even if SproutCore is not involved.