From: Eloy Duran <eloy.de.enige@...>
Date: 2007-11-05T03:33:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rucola 0.0.1 released.

Hi John,

There is also already some code in RubyCocoa that allows you to use
ActiveRecord (with for instance SQLite) in combination with Cocoa  
bindings.

http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/ActiveRecordSupport

It doesn't support everything (yet) of course, but it's a good basis  
for such glue code.
And bindings will make you happy.... generally :)

Actually I think that the "no need to learn" cocoa is not gonna happen.
But it will also not be such a problem with projects like Rucola I  
think,
because you get up and running in way which is generally known to ruby  
devs.
Instead of (the pain of) learning xcode etc.

Once you get past that you will see that cocoa is a very nice  
environment to work in.
And Interface Builder rocks!

Cheers,
Eloy

PS: I thought everybody did their coding exclusively on the toilet? ;)

On 4 nov 2007, at 19:18, John Joyce wrote:

> 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.
>
>