I remember seeing Steve pop into the Rubinius channel on freenode a few weeks ago and mention that he was planning to get Red Shoes running under MRI 1.9.2. Has that work begun and is there anything I can do to help it along? The reason I ask is because the GUI I have put together needs to publish some data to the network using the ffi-rzmq gem, which as its name implies, relies upon ffi support. The ffi gem has dropped all support for MRI 1.8.x. While it can still be installed, it is quite buggy. However, it works great with 1.9.2. Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distribution of this app becomes a lot more difficult since it can't be packaged up like Red Shoes code. If 1.9.x support for Red Shoes is many moons away, I welcome suggestions on how to proceed. cr
Hi Chuck, > Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distributio of this app > becomes a lot more difficult since it can't packaged up like Red Shoes code. Why not build a gem for your app? If you build your own gem and deploy, users can use it with the following just two steps. - install Ruby (e.g. on Windows, just download and run rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p290.exe) - gem install your-own-gem That's all. No? ashbb ps. I've never used OSX, sorry. :-P
On Sep 14, 2011, at 6:39 AM, ashbb wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > > Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distributio of this app > > becomes a lot more difficult since it can't packaged up like Red Shoes code. > Why not build a gem for your app? > > If you build your own gem and deploy, users can use it with the following just two steps. > > - install Ruby > (e.g. on Windows, just download and run rubyinstaller-1.9.2-p290.exe) > - gem install your-own-gem > > That's all. No? True, it's only a few steps. However, I need to deploy this to people who are basically computer illiterate. They can email and web browse, but asking them to install this software would be too hard. :) I will experiment a bit to see if I can make it simple enough for them. I'm a bit worried about all of the GTK gems that are required too. If binary versions aren't available, then I need to install DevKit too so they can be compiled on their machine. Lastly, Green Shoes is missing a few things. I would have to spend some time writing patches so that my current Shoes code would run (I use :width => "100%" in a few places and green shoes only likes numbers, no strings). We'll see... cr
The next Shoes release will use 1.9.2, and if you build it from source right now, you'll also get 1.9.2 On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote: > I remember seeing Steve pop into the Rubinius channel on freenode a few weeks ago and mention that he was planning to get Red Shoes running under MRI 1.9.2. Has that work begun and is there anything I can do to help it along? > > The reason I ask is because the GUI I have put together needs to publish some data to the network using the ffi-rzmq gem, which as its name implies, relies upon ffi support. The ffi gem has dropped all support for MRI 1.8.x. While it can still be installed, it is quite buggy. However, it works great with 1.9.2. > > Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distribution of this app becomes a lot more difficult since it can't be packaged up like Red Shoes code. > > If 1.9.x support for Red Shoes is many moons away, I welcome suggestions on how to proceed. > > cr >
That's good to know! Unfortunately, the build that was posted earlier today crashes on my OSX system. :( I'll just be patient. Sounds like we have some Shoes goodies coming in the near future. cr On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Eric Watson wrote: > The next Shoes release will use 1.9.2, and if you build it from source > right now, you'll also get 1.9.2 > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote: > >> I remember seeing Steve pop into the Rubinius channel on freenode a few weeks ago and mention that he was planning to get Red Shoes running under MRI 1.9.2. Has that work begun and is there anything I can do to help it along? >> >> The reason I ask is because the GUI I have put together needs to publish some data to the network using the ffi-rzmq gem, which as its name implies, relies upon ffi support. The ffi gem has dropped all support for MRI 1.8.x. While it can still be installed, it is quite buggy. However, it works great with 1.9.2. >> >> Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distribution of this app becomes a lot more difficult since it can't be packaged up like Red Shoes code. >> >> If 1.9.x support for Red Shoes is many moons away, I welcome suggestions on how to proceed. >> >> cr >>
Chuck, if you're eager to try it out, you can build it on your machine, following the instructions on the wiki: https://github.com/shoes/shoes/wiki/Building-Shoes-on-Mac-OS-X-10.6-and-10.7 I'm pretty sure it will work if you build it locally On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote: > That's good to know! > > Unfortunately, the build that was posted earlier today crashes on my OSX system. :( > > I'll just be patient. Sounds like we have some Shoes goodies coming in the near future. > > cr > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Eric Watson wrote: > >> The next Shoes release will use 1.9.2, and if you build it from source >> right now, you'll also get 1.9.2 >> >> On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> I remember seeing Steve pop into the Rubinius channel on freenode a few weeks ago and mention that he was planning to get Red Shoes running under MRI 1.9.2. Has that work begun and is there anything I can do to help it along? >>> >>> The reason I ask is because the GUI I have put together needs to publish some data to the network using the ffi-rzmq gem, which as its name implies, relies upon ffi support. The ffi gem has dropped all support for MRI 1.8.x. While it can still be installed, it is quite buggy. However, it works great with 1.9.2. >>> >>> Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distribution of this app becomes a lot more difficult since it can't be packaged up like Red Shoes code. >>> >>> If 1.9.x support for Red Shoes is many moons away, I welcome suggestions on how to proceed. >>> >>> cr >>> >
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Shoes was already on MRI 1.9.1 Tobi On 09/13/2011 10:22 PM, Chuck Remes wrote: > I remember seeing Steve pop into the Rubinius channel on freenode a few weeks ago and mention that he was planning to get Red Shoes running under MRI 1.9.2. Has that work begun and is there anything I can do to help it along? > > The reason I ask is because the GUI I have put together needs to publish some data to the network using the ffi-rzmq gem, which as its name implies, relies upon ffi support. The ffi gem has dropped all support for MRI 1.8.x. While it can still be installed, it is quite buggy. However, it works great with 1.9.2. > > Alternately, I could probably use Green Shoes but now distribution of this app becomes a lot more difficult since it can't be packaged up like Red Shoes code. > > If 1.9.x support for Red Shoes is many moons away, I welcome suggestions on how to proceed. > > cr >