Shoes Meets Merb: Driving a GUI App through Web Services in Ruby by Gregory Brown and Brad Ediger leads us on a six page tutorial extravaganza through not only building a cross-platform GUI app (namely, a pastebin of sorts) using WhyTheLuckyStiff's Shoes system, but using Rails-killer Merb as a backend for storing the data. It's an impressive enough effort that Why himself has linked to it and added a few notes of his own (including the provision of a much better illustrative screenshot - as used above).
In related news, yesterday Why announced the launch of a new version of Shoes, known as "Curious."
Comments
Nikc ·
Rails-killer. That's what the smart kids are saying. How long til the cool kids start saying it?
Peter Cooper ·
I just like throwing in slightly controversial or unusual bits and pieces in here and there to see if anyone's paying attention :)
Gregory Brown ·
@Peter:
Hey, we do too! Well... actually, not so much controversial about Monkeys on LSD.
*runs from PETA*
Lance Carlson ·
Merb 0.5 just came out!
sintaxi ·
this looks very interesting. in other news...
ezra just released merb 0.5 a couple of hours ago.
Garth ·
Merb is what Rails should be. And Erza has just released 0.5.
sintaxi ·
for those who are walking thorugh this tutorial,
I had to add "require 'yaml'" to the http_to_yaml.rb file on page 4 otherwise I got an error.