From: Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@...>
Date: 2008-06-08T23:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Desktop multi-plataform ruby app

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On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com>
wrote:

>  On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 05:57 +0900, James Britt wrote:
>
> If you have questions, jump on #monkeybars on irc;  the Monkeybars squad is usually about and very happy to answer questions.
>
>
> Which network?  Freenode?  The #monkeybars channel there has no topic and
> one person idling in it.  :)
>
>   --
> *Michael T. Richter* <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (*GoogleTalk:*
> ttmrichter@gmail.com)
> *Never, ever, ever let systems-level engineers do human interaction design
> unless they have displayed a proven secondary talent in that area. Their
> opinion of what represents good human-computer interaction tends to be a bit
> off-track. (Bruce Tognazzini)*
>
Team,

*Tristin*: I already tried the suggestion of FxRuby plus other GUIs. The
documentation for FxRuby was so so. I am the type that learn by example.
*Hassan*: I'll give it a try without un-installing "regular" Ruby.
*Tom*: I am also terrified of the Java T-Rex. So many packages, so many ways
to configure it, so many .....
         I went to
http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/61/install.html#requiredsoftwareand
found the soft requirements. I proceeded to Sun site and downloaded a
ton of software: JDK, JRE, NetBeans, Etc.  My installation went fine. The
problem is when I try something as simple as jruby -v (I do ruby -v for
regular ruby, so I assume the same is valid for jruby only with the prefix
j). I got the msg:

       Set JAV_HOME to point to your JDK/JRE directory.
I am using MS Windows XP and I set the variable. So now it works as long as
I am inside the *C:\jruby-1.1.2\bin* dir. I tried setting the PATH but
nothing.
*C:\jruby-1.1.2\bin>jruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-05-28 rev 6586) [x86-jruby1.1.2]

*I set the PATH but nothing. Perhaps I am not setting the PATH correctly. So
this is my new show-stopper. I will continue playing until I either get it
or get tired. Although I am already getting tired. This is not supposed to
be this difficult. But dealing with Java nothing is ever simple.
*Leslie*: Does Glade provides a drag/drop widget creation feature? I went to
*glade.gnome.org* but could not find anything about it.
*Charles*: That's a good feature I see useful. "Java is Java and so the same
GUI will basically work as-is on any *NIX". One thing that worries me
though, the JRuby site states that JRuby supports "almost" all the Ruby
classes. I have Ruby 1.8.6 running in well over 100 production AIX Servers.
If I convert to JRuby and need to ensure that current scripts will still
work under it. Is there any docs stating what's not support in JRuby which
is in Ruby?

Well, I am about to reboot my desktop and see if that will fix my problems.
I did not rebooted after the NetBeans installation.

Thanks everyone!

Victor

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