The ruby on rails team should release an official Visual Ruby on
Rails editor for Windows XP/Vista. By "visual" i mean people who do
not know any Ruby on Rails code can visually create a Ruby on Rails
site using visual tools.
So for example, a person loads the Visual Ruby on Rails editor
and starts with a blank page. They want to create a menu(eg.has the
buttons Home,biography,videos etc) for the top of the page, so they
click on the "menu" button and the menu is generated and is shown
visually at the top of their page. They then want to create a video
gallery so they click on the 'video gallery' button and a video
gallery is displayed on their 'videos' page and they can choose the
settings to make their admin password so they can upload videos.
They then want to put a website visitor counter on their page, so
they click on "visitor counter" and it appears on their page and
they can drag and drop this anywhere on the page and they can
change the colors,fonts,design etc.
There can be lots of other features too like signon
boxes,registration boxes,file uploaders,blog,wiki,forum,musician's
website,youtube video sharing type site,business website,page
columns,link exchange,sell ads on their site,slideshows,background
photos and music,chat room,secure shopping cart etc.
Users could also submit their features that the Ruby on Rails
team can add into the software. User submitted features should not
need a linkback or things like that. The software would
automatically check for updates every month and download them. The
software would also have to support HTML,CSS,and Mysql.Once a
person finishes making their Ruby on Rails site there should be an
ftp upload feature that uploads their site to the correct
directories on their web server.
Ruby on Rails code would still be able to be edited manually,
but by having an official Visual Ruby on Rails editor means it
would be easy to use and beginners could use it too.