• Registered: 2011-02-27
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Topic: shoes for ruby needed

hi there. pretty new to chumby and ruby.
well.. i would love to use shoes for a project.
https://github.com/shoes/shoes
someone tried it on the chumby one?

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Re: shoes for ruby needed

Well, that's a pretty big project.

Before you can run build shoes, you'd also need to get all of its dependencies working - cairo, pixman, pango, ungif, libjpeg, gtk2, vlc, portaudio, sqlite3, curl and openssl, ruby and rake.

Hopefully, you'd be able to use gtk in framebuffer mode, and not require X, otherwise the project gets even larger.

Shoes appears to be intended to create cross-platform desktop applications, not for embedded use.

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  • Registered: 2011-02-27
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Re: shoes for ruby needed

hi duane,
can you suggest any alternatives?
my project is implementing a ruby comet client. for this i need a gui which triggers a mp3 player.
workaround might me translating comet response into xml as we use comet for other clients too.