Just saw this on Ruby Inside about the Anvil DSL/Framework for creating ruby gui apps.
Pretty cool, I have been looking at Shoes, but I don’t have an Intel Mac, and I don’t touch a PC unless I have to.
But enough talking, let’s try it out with the proof of concept app called Hamr, a text editor of sorts.
To get it working you’ll need to install the wxruby gem.
sudo gem install wxruby
choose platform (I'm on an g5 - so i choose 1(powerpc))
then
mkdir test
cd test
svn checkout http://hamr.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/ hamr
cd hamr
ruby script/run
Yes! Very basic proof of concept, but very cool.
I have not had time to experiment with this, but it does look promising.
More information: Intro Blog Post | Hamr Project Page | Anvil Project Page | Shoes
1 response so far ↓
1 Lance Carlson // Sep 17, 2007 at 7:47 am
haha that is the first time I’ve seen Hamr in OS X. So cool! Very nice tutorial too. You should join the IRC channel and look for me (d2dchat) as I am looking for some input on where to put sizers in the DSL so that Hamr will become a real usable application rather than just a proof of concept. Hope to see you there!
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