From: Garret Buell <terragb@...>
Date: 2008-01-02T14:57:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Shoes require

On Jan 1, 2008 11:35 AM, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shoes incorporates its own Ruby interpreter so you need to either give
> it an explicit path to ActiveRecord's location or bundle ARec into a
> nearby directory in Shoes-land.

This is basically correct. As Shoes does indeed incorporate its own
Ruby interpreter it also has its own collection of relevant gems
already installed. Though there is no mechanism (yet) to install gems
automatically you can manually install them into the nearby directory
in Shoes-land which is ruby/lib.
Basically what I did to get ActiveRecord working was I downloaded
ActiveRecord and ActiveSupport from rubyforge.org. I'm using
ActiveRecord 1.15.6 and ActiveSupport 1.4.4. These are the newest
versions before the move to Rails 2.0. You could probably do it with
the 2.0 versions but I'm sticking back. Then I copied the lib
directories to the ruby/lib directory under shoes. If you do this
you'll notice they fit right in and don't look unusual at all. After
they are copied you can do a simple require 'active_record' and use it
as normal from within shoes. The key thing to note here is that
ActiveRecord depends on ActiveSupport. You can use this trick to
install any gems under shoes as long as you also install their
required dependencies.

I'm guessing you'll also want sqlite working and there seems to be a
problem with sqlite under windows so the solution right now is to
download the newest sqlite3.dll from
http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_5_4.zip and put it in the same
directory as the shoes.exe

-Garret Buell