LV Ruby Group Meetup from 8/24/11 Presentation on Ruby Shoes.

1. SHOES!!! policeman (3.0) sweet desktop apps in ruby Jeremy Woertink

2. Making sweet sweet love to desktop apps

4. Easy to learn API

6. No tabbed controls

7. No toolbars

9. Dirty Shoes

11. Poor Shoes

13. Different Linux distros(some don't work)

14. Strict Ruby version(1.9.1 with related issues)

15. No UI Helpers(no drag and drop UI like Visual Studio)

16. Windows memory management *

17. Weak "graphic" support(color, gradient, resizing issues)Don't fret! It's still in active development :)

18. Clown Shoes?

20. Learning Ruby

21. Passing time

22. Building small "widget" apps

23. Mini games (tetris clone, etc)

26. Install

27. Create *.rb file with code

28. Read some tutorials

29. http://cloud.github.com/downloads/shoes/shoes/nks.pdf

30. http://shoesrb.com/manual/Hello.html

31. https://github.com/ashbb/shoes_tutorial_walkthrough

33. Lets see some code! Shoes.app do para "Hello World" end

34. That's it! Questions?

35. JUST KIDDING!

36. Ok, here's more examples Shoes.app:title=>'Sample'do button"Click"do alert"WHOA!" end end

37. and more.... Shoes.app:width=>640,:height=>480do background"#f90" @self=self button"Change Color"do bgcolor=ask_color("Pick a new background color") @self.appdo background bgcolor end end end

38. and more.... Shoes.appdo @self =self left, top =nil, nil line_sizes = {large:10, medium:5, small:1} line_color, line_width = red, line_sizes[:medium] stroke line_color strokewidth line_width animate 24do b, x, y = @self.mouse line(left, top, x, y) if b ==1 left, top = x, y end button("clear") { background "#fff" } button("New Color") { @self.stroke ask_color("Pick a new background color") } list_box items: ["Large", "Medium", "Small"], choose:'Medium'do |selected| @self.strokewidth line_sizes[selected.text.downcase.to_sym] end end # BAM! Paint program in 18 lines of ruby :)

39. What else is there?

41. file diaglog (save, open)

42. download (like XMLHttpRequest)

43. text fields

44. text areas

45. radio buttons

46. check boxes

47. progress bar

48. video support

49. links

50. timers for events

51. paragraphs and headers

52. multiple windowsCheck the manual for more: http://shoesrb.com/manual/Shoes.html

53. Your turn.