From: Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@...>
Date: 2011-03-22T23:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: The best practices to learn Ruby

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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:52 AM, J. K. <jakekaiden@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fily Salas wrote in post #988710:
> > Wow! nice, was it done all in Ruby? What did you use as GUI, FXRuby,
> > Shoes etc...?
> >
> > Thank a lot!
>
> hi fily,
>
>  thanks - yep, all done in ruby (i don't know anything else!)  i use
> gnome2 for the GUI - it's well documented, stable, in active development
> and provides a native look to the widgets - and gstreamer for the audio.
> you can check out gnome2 here: http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ ...
> there's also a subsection of this forum dedicated to gnome2 which is
> extremely helpful.
>
>  i only started playing around with ruby about a year ago, and i
> couldn't agree more with greg, that the best way to learn is to start
> coding something that interests you.  i'm no kind of programmer
> whatsoever, but i love music, have a huge music collection, and haven't
> been satisfied with any audio players i've found - so i decided to write
> my own.  the thing started out quite simple - in fact it took me a while
> just to figure out how to make sound come out of the speakers! - but
> greg's point is a good one - if you've got a goal in mind, it makes
> reading all the tutorials and forum advice make sense, as you filter it
> for your own needs and put it into practice.  after managing to make
> some sounds, it was a step by step process getting things the way i
> wanted them.  the player now changes the "picture-disc" with each track,
> the tone-arm moves with the song progress, and functions as a seek bar -
> i've got a playlist and file selection dialog, drag and drop file and
> directory entry....  etc.etc.etc.
>  i've still got a lot of things i want to add (equalizer, spectrum
> analyzer, etc.) but it basically functions well at this point.  got some
> more wrinkles to iron out and i'll be posting the first version on
> ruby-forge with a link here on the forum, so you can get an idea of
> where a year of fiddling around got me...
>
>  happy coding!
>
>  -j
>
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>
>
That is incredibly cool and inspiring ^_^

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