why the lucky stiff wrote: > I haven't the foggiest how e works, but can you just use shoes.exe > to launch the script rather than rubyw.exe? I'm sorry, but Shoes is > optimized for complete beginners right now, so that they don't have > to go through the steps of installing Ruby and learning RubyGems and > figuring out how to install Shoes. This is very important to me.
I understand. I was just thinking Shoes would be neat as a general graphical front-end to ruby programs. I think I'm just coming to terms with what Shoes is and how I'll use it. e (http://www.e-texteditor.com), like TextMate (after which it patterns itself), calls the shell (and often, via #!, other interpreters, like ruby or python). Since Windows lacks any decent unix layer, e relies on Cygwin, so it doesn't use rubyw, but Cygwin's ruby interpreter. Yes, I could probably include shoes.exe in my bundle (or maybe even have e's author include it in the global support directory along side CocoaDialog) and call it directly. I'll give it a go and report back. > I wouldn't really compare Shoes to FXRuby, QTRuby or Ruby/TK. I > would compare Shoes to stuff like REBOL/View, Squeak, Processing or > NodeBox. It's a self-contained toolkit and environment, you know? I see, yes. And you include a version of the ruby interpreter within the Shoes application, is that right? Thanks!
