Shoes?

Ruby
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Steve K. wrote:

As someone who’s tangentially involved with the shoooes community, I
feel like I should drop off some comments here.

Shoooes is still very much being developed, but it seems like only two
people are really contributing at the moment.

Hi, I’ll echo Steve’s comments. Shoes is alive. Addressing some of the
issues in this thread:

  • We have a Google group and use librelist. I often cross post to both,
    so you might see a post from me on the Google group with 0 replies, but
    someone has answered it on librelist.
  • Sometimes though we might have an entire week without posts (the
    horror!), but that doesn’t mean Shoes is dead, just that we all have
    other things to do.
  • The shoes website, shoes.heroku.com has been up and running since mid
  1. I’ve never noticed it being down??
  • As to Github activity, remember to check out the network. Ashbb
    (GitHub - ashbb/shoes: a tiny graphical app kit for ruby) has done a lot of work with the Windows
    version of Shoes. He often blogs about Shoes
    (The Red Gem of Programming: Shoes) and writes whole swathes
    of technical insights as he’s been developing it
    (GitHub - ashbb/shoes_hack_note: Curious about Shoes inside. Taking some notes.). He also releases recent
    builds for Windows.
  • Shoes IRC. Highly unsupported. Unfortunately I can’t get on IRC from
    work. And I’m mainly doing Shoes stuff at work (I have a semi-legitimate
    work related excuse Mr. Employer!). At home my main computing platform
    is now an iPod: I did start dropping in on the IRC channel, but quickly
    realised it was pointless because I wouldn’t be able to fire up Shoes to
    answer technical queries. If only I could get the missus off Facebook
    and to stop making me build Chicken coops for invisible chickens, I
    could get on my mac and do more at home.
  • Mental (mental (m) · GitHub) and GreatSeth
    (greatseth (Seth Thomas Rasmussen) · GitHub) took stewardship of the Shoes project.
    Unfortunately, both have been inactive with Shoes of late.
  • We are currently lacking active Linux and OSX developers.

My disclaimer: I wouldn’t really consider myself a Shoes developer, I
try, but my efforts are usually eclipsed by Ashbb.

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I am interested to start this Shoes class. How do you distribute a
Shoe applicatioin for Win users that do not have Shoes or Ruby
installed?

You can distribute your application as a binary by running ‘rake
APP=/path/to/your/app installer’. This requires a certain directory
setup,
which there currently isn’t any documentation for. This is how I build
HacketyHack.

Writing said documentation is on my to-do list.

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Kurtis Rainbolt-greene wrote:

The Shoes/SQL IRC log was someone else, not me (I’m krainboltgreene).

I think what I’ll take from this thread is that if I want to use Shoes
for GUI development (And I do) I’m going to need to talk to the
developers directly and help where I can.

I appreciate the responses.

Shoes is offered as a class at http://www.rubylearning.org/class/ at
“courses coming soon” section (this month).
I am interested to start this Shoes class. How do you distribute a
Shoe applicatioin for Win users that do not have Shoes or Ruby
installed?
Cristian