From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-20T08:39:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla

In article <83173408.0403190854.55a334cb@posting.google.com>,
Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com> wrote:
>ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message
>news:<c3e3rn04rs@enews2.newsguy.com>...
>> So since there is already a Ruby/XPCOM interface 
>> (http://rbxpcom.mozdev.org/) the part we are missing is Ruby/XUL?
>
>I'm not up to speed with Ruby/XPCOM, but isn't it a one-way binding
>from Ruby->Mozilla?  A more interesting (and easy to use) mechanism
>would be if Mozilla understood <SCRIPT LANG='ruby'>...</SCRIPT>
>

Oh, certainly that would be cool.  Not sure how to acheive that, though.
Somehow you've got to embed Ruby in Mozilla.


It looks like rbxpcom might actually work for my needs, but I'm thinking 
it would have to be updated to work with ruby 1.8.1

BTW: Here's an interesting article about generating XUL with Python.  I 
suspect it wouldn't be too difficult to come up with a similar Ruby module 
for doing this.

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/xulnote_oven.html

Phil