[LRUG] graphics with ruby?

[Jon Wood]

Hi Justin,

I don't have any experience using Rails with Flash, however if you  
want to do graphics stuff on your Mac I can vouch for RubyCocoa, which  
is now installed by default on any Mac OS box running Leopard.

I'm developing a simple game using it at the moment, and it's the  
first time in years I have really enjoyed GUI programming! It often  
makes me think of Visual Basic, without being forced to do everything  
in such a horrible language.

There is a bit of a learning curve, as the documentation for Cocoa is  
all aimed at Objective C users, but once you learn to transpose the  
concepts to  Ruby it's surprisingly simple.

Jon

On 30 Dec 2007, at 13:31, Justin Lawerance Mills <JLM at justinfront.net>  
wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am a newbie and not backend skilled so be gentle.
>
> I am not really a Ruby user yet more of a Ruby and Rails reader and
> watcher over quite awhile now ( before rails was really in ), I have
> been reading a few books on the area over time, and have played with
> instant rails, typo and rforum briefly but never really got going.
> At the moment I am half way through a really good book on Ruby..
>
> Design Patterns In Ruby - Russ Olsen ( Addison Wesley )
>
> I would recommend it to anyone interested in Ruby or in Design
> patterns and anyone with some code who wants to learn some ruby.
>
> Anyway as a flash dev/design type, I am most interested in graphics
> related programming across platforms and possible use of ruby along
> side flash.
>
> So I wondered what experiance and advice people in the group have had
> with:
>
> 1) Integrating Rails with adobe flash.
> 2) Cross platform ( mac atleast ) graphics animation interaction RIA
> ruby use, if any exists?
> 3) 3D graphics with ruby
> 4) IronRuby and silverlight (I learnt a lot of XAML while on a
> contract, but C sharp is not a language I am keen to learn, but
> IronRuby/IronPython on a mac seems interesting )
> 5) AIR and Ruby.
>
> I know that unless I can do some cool graphics stuff on my mac (or
> poss my vista partition), and can get it setup easy I am not going to
> really get into Ruby, so advise welcome. At the moment I use textmate
> for any coding, but I am not sure how to get ruby to run direct from  
> it.
>
> Direction and advice welcome
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Justin
>
>
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