From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2010-10-28T11:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Shoes 3 released

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com>wro=
te:

> Hey there everyone. We've just released Shoes 3, "Policeman", to
> celebrate Whyday!
>
> You can get it here: http://shoes.heroku.com/downloads
>
> =3D=3D About Shoes
>
> Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily
> and artfully using Ruby.
> Unlike most other GUI toolkits, Shoes is designed to be easy and
> straightforward without losing power. Really, it=92s easy!
>
> =3D=3D Release notes
>
> - This brings Shoes to use Ruby 1.9.1.
> - All dependancies have been updated to their latest versions
> - General stability improvements
> - Currently, the OSX build is only for Snow Leopard, 64 bit. We'd love
> to make a version for Leopard, 32 bit systems, but we don't have
> anyone with the hardware. If that interests you, please send a message
> to our mailing list, shoes@librelist.com
> - Have fun on Whyday!
>
>

I just gave Shoes a try, it was a lot of fun. Went in with no knowledge, an=
d
other than a very very tiny swing project, and playing around with limeligh=
t
for a few hours, I've never had any GUI experience before. In the end, I
spent maybe 6-8 hours on it over the course of a day. Most of that, spent
learning how Shoes works (one downside is that I haven't found a good way t=
o
get my app to give me feedback, and I have no idea how you would test it --
JRuby maybe?). The manual on shoesrb is really well done, and the guys on
IRC were a lot of fun to talk to.

Ended up making a small video game, Night Of The Living Ruby! You can watch
a short vid (<2min) at http://vimeo.com/16265101

Thanks a lot guys (and _why, if you ever read this, thank you, too).

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