Congrats Derek - looks good! On 1 Aug 2011, at 18:07, Derek Haynes wrote:
> Redwood is a "Spotlight for the cloud" -- it searches Basecamp, Gmail, > Google Docs, and Pivotal Tracker from one search bar on your desktop. > You can download Redwood from our homepage: > > http://redwoodapp.com > > We've loved developing the app with MacRuby. Details on the technical guts: > > * MacRuby 0.10, embedded in the application bundle > * Originally we used the Nokogiri and GData gems. However, we dropped > these as the load time took several seconds during the application > launch. A likely cause: gems are not compiled like the application > code. The performance during application usage was fine. > * Several Obj-C libraries: Sqlite3 and FMDB for database, > ASIHTTPRequest for HTTP, Sparkle for auto-update, SBJson, and CocoaFob > + Potion Store (a Rails app) for licensing. > * Search results are rendered in HTML/CSS, and events are passed back > and forth between an embedded Webview and Cocoa > > We'll provide a richer overview of our experience w/MacRuby in a > couple of weeks on our blog. > > Give the full-featured trial a whirl and let me know how it goes: > http://redwoodapp.com > > Cheers, > > Derek > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
