From: Rajinder Yadav Date: 2009-10-24T01:32:43+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby-1.9, sqlite3 and qt4 on windows On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Martin DeMello wrote: > 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. Martin, if you discover something about squel or datamapper when comparing to datamapper, I would like to know just because I am interested or curious. Maybe you can post your find on this thread, thanks. 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 >> >> > > -- Kind Regards, Rajinder Yadav http://devmentor.org Do Good! ~ Share Freely