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Thank you wesley for the input. Unfortunately it did not work. I was
talking about the lib bindings for fox in ruby. IE getting the classic
test to work.
#irb
irb> require 'fox'
irb> require 'fox12'
Getting the correct files has been a little difficult. One time ruby
needs to be upgraded. Next the ruby fox files do not install in the
correct place. I teach others to program (kids) and try to show them
to move to linux. When I give a kid a computer with knoppix on it and
they struggle, I run into a serious problem with getting there focus
back. I am a firm believer in making everything as easy as possible.
> I think saying Rails just "happened" to pick Ruby is kind of a stretch. =)
> Everything in Rails is plain Ruby code; it's not an interpreter or new
> language built with Ruby.
>
Maybe your right. I see rails as a very nice way to develop web
applications. One of the best. The programmers could have picked
python or perl as the initial language to create the "python on
rails". I am a little bias towards Ruby to be objective. I see that
Ruby west the best choice. I do not disagree with the choice. Ruby is
the only scripting language that I know of that truly embraces OOP and
that is why the functionality of rails is so simple to learn.
Again, thanks for the pointers.
Wes
On 8/16/05, Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 14:55, w robbi wrote:
> > Rails falls in this question. Rails is more a new method or concept
> > of programming than it is RUBY. The people who developed it, just
> > happened to pick ruby as the core language. I think they were smart
> > not to pick ADA, Fortran, or VMS/DCL?
>
> I think saying Rails just "happened" to pick Ruby is kind of a stretch. =)
> Everything in Rails is plain Ruby code; it's not an interpreter or new
> language built with Ruby.
>
> > Does ruby have a GUI interface?
> >
> > Major, After loathing the look and feel of a few TK GUIs I made in
> > ruby, I moved to the GUI interface called "FOX". Under windows, Fox
> > works perfectly. Linux is a little trickier. Installing FOX is a
> > *itch. I would move to any Linux distribution, if they ever
> > pre-installed the FOX / ruby programs. I'm a GUI lover. I always
> > make pretty GUIs for everything I do. I try to make them as easy as
> > possible to use for any one.
>
> Installing is hard? Eh?
> $ aptitude install libfox1.0-dev
>
> It's available as a package most distributions--it's been in Debian since
> 1999. Or are you not talking about the great FOX toolkit with Ruby bindings
> at <http://www.fox-toolkit.org/>?
>
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