From: richard.j.dale@...
Date: 2009-05-16T00:35:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby based linux

On May 15, 4:10 pm, Tim Apple <t...@tdapple.com> wrote:
> Alex wrote:
> > Quite frankly, if you're attempting to target this at Ruby developers, I
> > think most of us (I know at least me) would rather put together our own
> > setup. I would rather pick and choose everything I want in the first
> > place,
> > instead of my development environment being overflowing
> > with extraneous software.
> > If you're just making this as "something to do", then I completely
> > understand, but don't expect developers to want to use something that's
> > not
> > customized how we like it.
>
> > As far as editors go, Emacs and VIM are the standards, and as long as
> > you've
> > got rubygems and ruby installed, the user can handle pretty much
> > everything
> > else.
>
> > Alex
>
> I am looking more at creating a Ruby environment...Just as Ruby as I can
> make everything..If I can replace any stock Ubuntu app with something
> written in Ruby(If functional..and opensource).. Again, this is a hobby
> project, for fun. I want to see how far we can all take ruby.....heck,
> maybe someday it will be a complete ruby desktop...who knows..should be
> fun though.
If you want to write a complete desktop in Ruby, you can write KDE 4
plasmoids in Ruby to implement a custom desktop - the whole of the
KDE4 desktop UI is made up of plamsa applets. You can't do everything
that you can do in C++ via the stock Plasma scripting api, but you can
do quite a lot.

KDE4 has complete bindings for the Qt/KDE apis (QtRuby and Korundum),
but we haven't got a finished KDevelop4 Ruby environment yet. In the
meantime I find Kate is a nice editor to use with Ruby.

-- Richard