From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2008-07-12T01:53:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Rucola 0.5 released

On Jul 11, 5:08 am, Eloy Duran <eloy.de.en...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just released Rucola 0.5
>
> 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 for the most common tasks.
>
> 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.
>
> New in this release:
> Dependency resolver:
> * You can now specify your dependencies in environment.rb and they
> will resolved and vendored in release mode.
>    This applies to gems and any other ruby lib. Because of this
> agnostic system there might still be some edge cases, for this purpose
>    there's the possibility to specify exceptions.
> * In release mode RubyGems will NOT be loaded even if it's required at
> some point. This results in application startup time going from ~3
> bounces in the dock to ~1.
>
> Deploying:
> * Added rake task for packaging a release build in a dmg
> * Added rake task for uploading via scp, adding others is easy.
> * Added rake task for creating a Sparkle appcast file.
> * Added rake task that looks for textile files in ReleaseNotes/
> AppName_Version and creates HTML for Sparkle.
>
> Others:
> * Added Rucola::FSEvents which is a rubyesque wrapper around FSEvents.
> * Added Rucola::Reloader, which uses Rucola::FSEvents to watch the app/
> controllers path for modifications and reloads the class.
>    In debug mode this will be enabled by default, you can override
> this setting on the `config` of Initializer.
> * Added the Rucola::Log class and an extension to Kernel to access it
> easily. (Manfred Stienstra)
> * Added Rucola::TestCase which is a test case mixin, like the one in
> Rails, which sets up a test case for a controller, defines helper
> methods and creates stubs for all ib_outlets that are defined in the
> controller.
> * Added support for ruby-debug. If a call is made to Kernel.debugger
> and the RUBYCOCOA_ENV is 'debug', then the ruby-debug library will be
> required and ran.
> * NSImage.imageNamed will also look in app/assets for a given image
> name.
> * Added a script/console script which will run a irb console with the
> application loaded. (Jelle Helsen)
> * Added a simple model generator, which is simply a subclass of
> NSObject.
>
> http://rucola.rubyforge.org/
>
> Cheers,
> Eloy

Sounds like a good release, Eloy. It was definitely too long to wait
to get a Ruby wrapper for FSEvents, though. ;) And, of course, it's
silly to make Rucola a dependency only to use its nice FSEvents
wrapper.

Lately I've been pushing out of the pure-Ruby shell I seem to have
grown around myself. Playing around with Dashcode yesterday was fun
enough, and now this Rucola release makes me want to invent a problem
I can solve with a RubyCocoa app.

Keep up the good work.

--
-yossef