Hi Tim, About bundling a Rails app: yes, you can. I have a little proof-of-concept for this here:
http://github.com/jamesmacaulay/office-party It's an almost-featureless iTunes web interface that starts on port 3000. The Shoes UI just opens up a tail on the logfile and an instance of the MimickIRB example with the environment loaded to make an ad-hoc script/console. The code that's on GitHub right now only works in OS X, but I got a Rails-in-Shoes server up and running recently on Windows by using Mongrel instead of Webrick. Here's a demo from a few months ago from someone else also wrapping Rails in Shoes, but he's got the app UI being generated in Shoes instead of it just acting as an app-launcher for the Rails app: http://www.vimeo.com/2497959 I'd be interested in seeing what anyone else is doing in this area. There might be potential for a gem or something to aid in the development of this kind of Shoes app. -James On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. > > I am just starting with shoes and have a couple of questions. > > The first one is how do you reload an application you are working on? I am > trying to follow the examples and I haven't figured out how to reload the > application once I have made an edit. > > I am also curious as to which version of ruby shoes is running and whether > it might be possible to use shoes as a means to bundle a rails app. > -- James MacAulay Ottawa, Canada http://jmacaulay.net
