From: James Britt Date: 2008-06-08T06:17:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Desktop multi-plataform ruby app Tom Cloyd wrote: > This all sounds very interesting, and I want to investigate it, but I > dread having to deal with the java monster. I've been there before. So have I. And David created Monkeybars to avoid all that. Seriously, you can write desktop apps that use Swing and run under JRuby and never look at a line of Java. That's basically the whole point. We wanted whatever was good we could glom from Java, while avoiding having to write any actual Java ourselves. > Forty-five+ versions, all with 26 letter names, and documentation that > requires a masters in CS to decypher. I simply cannot know everything, > and I'm pretty committed in a couple of other fields. Still, I have > programming to get done, and drag and drop GUI that doesn't require yet > another book to read would be a blessing. > Monkeybars. It uses reflection and naming conventions to interact with the UI components so that you stick to Ruby. > So, onward, again. I try to install Netbeans 6 for Linux. Says it want a > JDK (the dread starts now). I'm on Kubuntu, so I go to Adept, find > sun-jave6-jdk - nothing else looks more likely - and install it. Now > Netbeans says it can't find it and I need to point the way. Huh? Don't > have a clue. Better off grabbing the JDB+NetBeans bundle from netbeans.org, then once installed telling NetBeans to install the Ruby plugins. There is a screencast on monkeybars.org that goes through the installation of NetBeans: http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/tutorials/netbeans.html -- James Britt "Tear it up and start again." - Anonymous