[Kde-bindings] Rbuic patch

[Marek Janukowicz]

On Friday 30 April 2004 19:03, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 17:26, Marek Janukowicz wrote:
> > > > I also sent a patch adding QtRuby projects support to KDevelop to
> > > > KDevelop mailing lists. I have seen this mentioned in TODO for
> > > > QtRuby, so I thought you may want to know :)
> > >
> > > Sounds good, that should make it easier for people to try it out - they
> > > can generate from the project template, and start hacking the ruby code
> > > to experiment.
> >
> > That's what I hope for. I wonder if there is any way to generate .rb
> > files from .ui from within KDevelop.
>
> There would need need to a .ui -> .rb Makefile rule to invoke rbuic on the
> .ui files. So the project generation of the Makefile.am would need to do
> that.

I promise next time I'll at least take a look at the code before asking 
question with obvious answer :)

> > > I was speaking with a guy who had made a start with KDevelop/ruby on
> > > irc a couple of months ago - I don't think it has a class parser yet. I
> > > don't know what's involved in doing that.
> >
> > That's interesting, because I was the one who started Ruby support part
> > for KDevelop :) You can verify this here
> > http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdevelop/languages/ruby/.
> > Someone else added a simple parser though.
>
> Ah, ok - maybe it was you on irc? 

I don't think so - I never use irc :)

> How many KDE ruby people are there - 
> should we have our own mailing list like kde-perl to coordinate?

I am not sure if such a list would have enough traffic - I don't see too many 
messages here on kde-bindings.

> Anyhow I must pay more attention to KDevelop/ruby support. I just been
> using either Kate or KDevelop 2.0 for older projects recently.

I think new KDevelop has great potential and Ruby really lacks a good IDE. 
There is a FreeRIDE project, but it seems to be rather stagnant. Also Qt/KDE 
is much more complete than Fox, which FreeRIDE is based on.

-- 
Marek