From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-08-27T23:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Shoes as Gems or other such

On Aug 27, 10:05 am, Handy Gandy <handigandy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I was just checking out shoes. While I like it, I am a bit concerned.
>
> The standard way of using shoes is to download shoes and use ruby from
> shoes, but what I would like to do is download shoes as a gem and use it
> from ruby. Is there a way of doing that? Os some thing similar.
>

Basically Shoes does lot of initialization to the graphic framework
that is not possible to initialize when a gem loads (is too late in
the process)

> PS I am using Linux Mint ( essentially Ubuntu ), so there are a lot of
> ruby stuff that I can get as deb packages. So I'm hesitant to lose all
> that to get an independent shoes.

Well, you should not depend on your system management system to work
with shoes or even RubyGems in general (IMO)

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Luis Lavena