rucola

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What

A Framework for rapidly building RubyCocoa applications

Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps. It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake commands, eliminating the need to use XCode for the most common tasks.

Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate controllers, window controllers, and document-based applications. It also provides APIs for simplifying some of Objective-C’s ways of doing things.

Requirements

• RubyCocoa 0.13.2 That’s NOT the one currently included with Leopard
• For testing it’s adviced to install the following gems: test-spec, mocha, zentest (autotest)

Installing

$ sudo gem install rucola

Demonstration of usage

Generating an application skeleton

$ rucola MyApp -a "Your Name"

Running this command will give you a complete, working application with a single window already bound to your application controller.

Running an application

$ rake

Extras

Documentation can be found here.

Sample apps can be found at:

 svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rucola/extras/examples/

There’s a basic TextMate bundle which contains only 4 commands which are the equivalent of the “go to file” commands in the rails bundle. With these going from a controller to it’s test/model/view file is only a shortcut away. To get it:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/
svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rucola/extras/Rucola.tmbundle

There’s a crash reporter plugin and a ActiveRecord plugin available. Check their descriptions with:

cd MyApp
script/plugin list

Or install them with:

cd MyApp
script/plugin install SACrashReporter

Forum

http://groups.google.com/group/rucola

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code and for section 8b: Submit patch to Google Groups, use the Google Group above.

Browse the git repo online at: http://github.com/alloy/rucola/tree/master

The latest version can be checked out with:

$ git clone git://github.com/alloy/rucola.git

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email via the forum

Eloy Duran, 11th July 2008
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