Converting console app to Shoes

Rails
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Ugh, I’m at my wits end. I’ve been trying for hours to convert this
simple app to work on Shoes, and I still haven’t found a solution, and
I was wondering if someone could steer me in the right direction on
how to do this.

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘Linguistics’

This gem extends the classes. This statement extends them.

Linguistics::use( :en, :installProxy => :en )

My loop-workings

i = 10
until i < 1
thenumber = gets.to_i

Changes the number into a form that you would speak

puts thenumber.numwords, “\n”
end

So basically, I type in a number like 36,090 and it returns with
"Thirty-six thousand and ninety’. Using the Linguistics gem. I’m new
to Ruby (and programming in general) and this is my first post to a
mailing list, so bare with me.

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Well first of all you will have to create EditBox and TextBlock. Then
create a button passing a block to it. This block should read value of
EditBox.text convert it and store it to TextBlock.text. You should
probably read shoes elements documentation at
http://help.shoooes.net/Elements.html

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Brett Jackson wrote:

Ugh, I’m at my wits end. I’ve been trying for hours to convert this
simple app to work on Shoes, and I still haven’t found a solution, and
I was wondering if someone could steer me in the right direction on
how to do this.

This forum discusses “Ruby on Rails”, which is Shoes’s sibling-rival.

Questions like these need a newsgroup with more responders who know
Shoes, such
as Shoes’s adventurer’s mailing list…

So basically, I type in a number like 36,090 and it returns with
"Thirty-six thousand and ninety’. Using the Linguistics gem. I’m new
to Ruby (and programming in general) and this is my first post to a
mailing list, so bare with me.

I would write a unit test that uses the Linguistics gem directly,
without Shoes.
That’s the most important programming tip you will hear in a long time -
to
write tests on modules, decoupled from the whole app.

Install ruby itself from a distro, such as the One Click Installer, and
learn it
independent from Shoes, as you learn Shoes.

And, if you will bear with me here, I must decline your offer to bare
with you! (-:

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Phlip
Radar – O’Reilly