Talk ideas

[Chris Roos]

I'd be interested in hearing about gui frameworks with ruby. I feel
more than comfortable using ruby for scripting and developing web
applications yet wouldn't know where to start when it comes to
developing gui apps. I'd like to use my knowledge of ruby to develop
gui applications as rapidly as I can develop web apps/libraries.

I'd also be interested to know whether anyone's doing anything
useful/cool/whatever with ruby on mobile devices, specifically
Android.

Cheers, Chris

[Tom Taylor]

+1

Specifically, I'd love to hear about MacRuby/RubyCocoa.

Hell, if I get some time I might even be able to get up to speed on them myself and give a short session.

[Kerry Buckley]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Tom Taylor <t...@tomtaylor.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2009, at 09:27, Chris Roos wrote:
>>
>> I'd be interested in hearing about gui frameworks with ruby.  I feel
>> more than comfortable using ruby for scripting and developing web
>> applications yet wouldn't know where to start when it comes to
>> developing gui apps.  I'd like to use my knowledge of ruby to develop
>> gui applications as rapidly as I can develop web apps/libraries.
>>
>> I'd also be interested to know whether anyone's doing anything
>> useful/cool/whatever with ruby on mobile devices, specifically
>> Android.
>
> +1
>
> Specifically, I'd love to hear about MacRuby/RubyCocoa.

Another vote for something MacRuby/RubyCocoa related from me.

Kerry

[James Mead]

I've been using RubyCocoa to build a "real" app recently and, although by no means an expert on the matter, I might be able to string a short talk together.

Is there anything specific people would be interested in learning about?

Here are some ideas :-

- getting started/development environment
- different types of app e.g. desktop, preference pane, daemon/status bar, plugins
- translating Objective-C code into Ruby code
- Cocoa GUI concepts/Interface Builder
- reading/writing preferences
- reading/writing to the keychain
- application updates using Dr Nic's Choctop & the Sparkle framework
- communicating between apps e.g. notifications
- making HTTP requests

Cheers, James.

[Chris Roos]

That list sounds good to me James. One of the ideas I've had for such
an app (and this may well already exist) is an offline feed reader,
like Vienna, that stores subscriptions and their state (items
read/unread etc) in the cloud but stores any http auth credentials
locally (in the keychain maybe). I think I know all the bits that
need to go together to make this work but wouldn't know where to start
in gui land. Your list sounds as though it'd give me enough to get
going.

Oh, actually, maybe you could touch on testing such apps too?

Cheers, Chris


2009/11/11 James Mead <ja...@floehopper.org>:

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