comp.lang.ruby

Eloy Duran

11/26/2007 8:51:00 PM

Err, forgot to add this link where you can find a screencast on =20
creating a Rucola/RubyCocoa app with BDD.

http://www.superalloy.nl/blog/2007/11/26/rucola-002...

Cheers,
Eloy

On 26 nov 2007, at 21:30, Eloy Duran wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are pleased to announce the second release of Rucola today.
> http://rucola.ruby...
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> This release has some major enhancements and therefore uses the new =20=

> RubyCocoa 0.13.
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> We're happy to announce that Chris McGrath & Satoshi Nakagawa have =20
> joined the team.
> Chris added the foundation for ActiveRecord usage with Rucola. (No =20
> fixtures etc yet.)
> And Satoshi-san uses the crash reporter plugin in his excellent =20
> RubyCocoa based irc client LimeChat,
> for which he has provided lots of patches.
>
> Also there's support for autotest and some plugins.
>
> And lots of other improvements.
>
> Cheers,
> Rucola team.
>
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> A Framework for building Cocoa applications in Ruby
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> Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa =20
> apps.
> It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake =20
> commands,
> eliminating the need to use XCode, however you can use XCode if you =20=

> wish.
>
> Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate =20
> controllers, window controllers,
> and document-based applications. It also provides APIs for =20
> simplifying some of Objective-C=92s
> ways of doing things.
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> CHANGES:
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> RUCOLA Core:
> - Initializer: Spec'd the class methods of Initializer.
> - Initializer: Change initializer to check if environment is release =20=

> rather than debug so that we can have the same setup for debug and =20
> test. Fixes problem when AR plugin installed in app.
>
> - Plugin: Added script/generate rucola_plugin for rucola apps
> - Plugin: Add the initial Plugin code and hook it into the initializer
> - Plugin: Added Plugin#after_launch which uses a PluginRunner class =20=

> that uses NSNotifications to run plugin hooks after the application =20=

> has started.
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> - Notifications: Added a helper for firing notifications.
> - Notifications: Moved notification name resolution to a separate =20
> method, and don't raise NameErrors when the constant doesn't exist.
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> - Support: Added Rucola::InfoPlist#app_name & Rucola::RCApp#app_name =20=

> which return the CFBundleExecutable value from the Info.plist file.
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> - Testing: Added the code to make autotest play nice with a rucola =20
> app!!
> - Testing: Added autotest sound plugin, original idea from: Jeremy =20
> Seitz.
> - Testing: Added autotest images plugin, copyright: John Nunemaker.
> - Testing: Added useful skeleton tests using test/spec and mocha.
> - Testing: Added a few more test helpers which provide a shortcut =20
> for getting ivars (ib_outlets).
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> - InitializeHooks: The initialize_hooks will now call #after_init on =20=

> an instance if it exists. This is so that #init doesn't have to be =20
> overriden to setup defaults etc.
>
> - Generator: Updated the generators with better banners.
> - Generator: The document_model_generator will not longer run if no =20=

> extension is specified, but rather display the usage banner.
>
> - Nib: Fixed bugs where destructive methods were called on immutable =20=

> objects. This was a change in RubyCocoa.
> - Nib: Nib#add_class now takes an optional superclass.
>
> - Rake: Fixed a bug in the xcode rake task where the local var =20
> 'executable' was not passed explicitly into the thread. So the app =20
> would sometimes not come to the front.
> - Rake: The rake test task will now print with the -rr pretty test/=20
> spec output.
> - Rake: Modified xcode:build rake task to do xcodebuild everytime. =20
> Otherwise changes in the nibs will not be reflected in the app bundle.
> - Rake: Make main.rake load tasks from vendor/plugins/*/tasks/*.rake
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> EXTRAS:
> - AR: Add basic ActiveRecord model, proxy and migration generator.
> - AR: The AR generator also adds the proxy and =20
> ActiveRecordSetController to the specified nibs.
> - AR: Move the ActiveRecord code into a rucola_activerecord plugin
> - AR: Added support for migrations and other AR tasks
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> - Samples: Added another simple sample app (Leecher) which simply =20
> downloads files and displays the progress.
>
> - SACrashReporter: Fixed bug if ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter doesn't =20=

> exist.
> - SACrashReporter: Fixed bug in the crash log naming style on 10.5.
> - SACrashReporter: The crash reporter will never be ran if it's the =20=

> very first time.
> - SACrashReporter: Replaced the http posting with the cocoa =20
> equivalent and display message while the reporter is doing the post.
> - SACrashReporter: On Leopard every crash is logged in an individual =20=

> file, now reads and writes those too.
> - SACrashReporter: SACrashReporter/init.rb now uses the new Plugin =20
> system to alter Initializer.do_boot and run SACrashReporter.submit =20
> after the application has started.
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> - Rucola TM Bundle: Going to the view from the application =20
> controller will now open the MainMenu.nib in IB.