[ANN] Ruboto 0.9.0 released!

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The Ruboto team is proud to announce the release of Ruboto 0.9.0.

Ruboto (JRuby on Android) is a platform for developing full stand-alone
apps for
Android using the Ruby language and libraries. It includes support
libraries
and generators for creating projects, classes, tests, and more. The
complete
APIs of Android, Java, and Ruby is available to you using the Ruby
language.

New in version 0.9.0:

This release introduces the ability for Ruby classes to directly
subclass Java classes.

You need JRuby 1.7.0 or later included in your project. Generate your
project with
the --with-jruby option, or include JRuby in an existing Ruboto project
with the
“ruboto gen jruby” command.

An updated RubotoCore package based on JRuby 1.7 will be released later
this year.

Features:

  • Issue #250 Allow Ruby classes to subclass Java classes
  • Issue #255 Remove “ruboto_generate” in favor of direct subclassing of
    Java classes.
  • Issue #257 Stop support for updating projects with Android SDK 13 and
    older directly
  • Issue #272 Add --force option to “ruboto gen app”
  • Issue #274 * app name must be capitalized, so force it.

Bugfixes:

  • Issue #251 Fails to load app named like org.ruboto.examples.app1
  • Issue #265 Stored test app fixture must handle different bundles

Internal:

  • Issue #171 Update test project using the --subprojects parameter
  • Issue #221 Release 0.9.0 gem

Support:

  • Issue #152 ANT fails on Windows
  • Issue #267 Avoid Users having to install Ruboto-Core apk
  • Issue #269 No documentation on how to create a notification in Ruboto

Pull requests:

  • Issue #263 Edited ruboto.rake to check for Window host_os
  • Issue #270 Fail to compile when Jruby JARs are included
  • Issue #271 ‘net/http’ is missing
  • Issue #275 * app name must be capitalized, so force it.

You can find a complete list of issues here:

Installation:

To use Ruboto, you need to install a Java JDK, the Android SDK, Apache
ANT, and a Ruby implementation. Then do (possibly as root)

gem install ruboto

To create a project do

ruboto gen app --package <your.package.name>

You can find an introductory tutorial at

If you have any problems or questions, come see us at http://ruboto.org/

Enjoy!

–
The Ruboto Team
http://ruboto.org/