From: Martin DeMello Date: 2009-10-23T17:22:08+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-1.9, sqlite3 and qt4 on windows Yes, i'm definitely using an orm :) Debating the relative merits of sequel and datamapper at the moment, just because i'd like to see what other than activerecord is out there. But the sqlite3 backend needs to work and googling gave me mixed results for how seamless that was on windows. Also i've used rubyscript2exe before, but the homepage says nothing about ruby 1.9. I'm interested in qt because i want look-and-feel compatibility with an existing C++/Qt app, but if that's a no-go on windows my fallback options are either Wx or JRuby+Glimmer. Also, there's Rawr [http://rawr.rubyforge.org/], which is a great incentive to explore JRuby. martin On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Rajinder Yadav wrote: > Martin DeMello wrote: >> >> I'm thinking of developing an app with ruby 1.9, sqlite3 and qt4 which >> I'd like to distribute on windows, ideally as a packaged executable, >> though if it works against the one-click installer that'd be fine too. >> Anyone with experience to share? Sqlite3 is the only hard requirement, >> but I'm very reluctant to go back to ruby 1.8, and Qt would be a plus >> because this is intended to be a companion to an existing Qt app. >> > > You might want to check out ruby2exe, I haven't used this but it looks like > a good possibility for what you're trying to do. > > http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/index.html > > If you're going to add database support you might want to think about using > ActiveRecord, this will make it easier for you to switch to another database > later. There is also RubyDBI you might want to look at. Unless there is a > need to use specific feature of sqlite3, you might want to use a more > flexible database interface than sqlite3-ruby. > > GUI wise, there is wxWidgets which takes a lot of ideas from MFC Windows > programming, you could check that project out, for Ruby you would then be > working with WxRuby > > http://www.wxwidgets.org/ > http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl > > I have not used either of there, but you can compare it with QT4 > >> martin >> >> > > > -- > Kind Regards, > Rajinder Yadav > > http://DevMentor.org > Do Good ~ Share Freely > >