From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T03:18:23+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rucola 0.0.1 released.

Excellent beginning!
I was just thinking about such things on the toilet this morning (of  
course, where else?).
With RubyCocoa now officially bundled in OS X, it is only a matter of  
months before this kind of thing explodes.
I was thinking about:

Using ActiveRecord, and potentially some sort of Rails-like  
framework. But for OS X development, there is no reason to install  
MySQL, rather, just use SQLite, since it too is bundled and is  
commonly used by Mac applications.

Using WebKit as a super-lazy, "no need to learn Cocoa" approach to  
building an app.

Even for developing Dashboard Widgets... a Ruby solution would be nice.


On Nov 4, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Eloy Duran wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Yesterday we released the first alpha version of rucola:
> http://rucola.rubyforge.org/
>
> For a screencast (showed at RubyConf by Dr Nic) using the rucola  
> command see this post:
> http://www.superalloy.nl/blog/2007/11/04/rucola-a-rubycocoa- 
> application-builder/
>
> Cheers,
> Eloy Duran & Justin Palmer
>
> ====================================================================== 
> ==
> A Framework for building Cocoa applications in Ruby
>
> Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa  
> apps.
> It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake  
> commands,
> eliminating the need to use XCode, however you can use XCode if you  
> wish.
>
> Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate  
> controllers, window controllers,
> and document-based applications. It also provides APIs for  
> simplifying some of Objective-C’s
> ways of doing things.