[Kde-bindings] Building Ruby 1.9 on Linux x86_64

[Richard Dale]

On Saturday 13 December 2008 01:02:36 you wrote:
> Hi,  I have downloaded the current Ruby 1.9 and tried to build it on my
> Opensuse 11.0 with kde4.2beta the build fails, it does make miniruby I'll
> startup my dev box and get the make stdout, but is their any known issues
> with building ruby 1.9 that you know of? or is their someone else I should
> contact about building ruby on x86_64 linux ? I have built a few things on
> this system, including some kde4.2 code from trunk all ok.
Yes  Davor Ocelic has some patches for Ruby 1.9 support in qtruby and we are 
in the process of adding them to the trunk. He also has complete patches for 
qtruby 1.4.10 on rubyforge. I'll cc this mail to the kde-bindings at kde.org 
mailing list where we've been discussing the changes.

> I am developing a presentation system using kde4's libplasma and would like
> to be using ruby 1.9 as some point. I want to be able to orchestrate
> presentation of images and services/processes. I have been following the
> kde-binding newlist to keep informed of what the current state is with ruby
> on kde4, I am just starting out using ruby, qt, kde, I have not yet build
> the latest ruby binding's.
>
> I recently just got  back from a rails camp in Adelaide here in Australia
> nearly everyone uses Mac's but those I showed kde4 to were very impressed,
> especially when I showed them 'jolie' and nepomuk, and your ruby binding
> support.  Thank you for your effort here it is very much appreciated.
That's good to hear - I really think we're starting to get very pretty and 
polished with kde 4.2. I think nepomuk/soprano is a good combination with 
Ruby. It also includes an adaptor for Soprano so you can use it with 
ActiveRDF.

 Have you tried ActiveRDF and ruby rdfa yet? They work very nicely with Rails 
- I'm doing a test bed project for using RDF with Rails on github:

http://github.com/rdale/dooit_rails/

We had an intern here to write a Rails todo list with tagging app, and then I 
helped her convert to use ActiveRDF instead of ActiveRecord. So I'm just in 
the process of tidying it up a bit and then writing a blog to describe what we 
were trying to do.

> Hopefully at some point soon I may be able to contribute back.
Yes bug reports, fixes and enhancements are certainly very welcome.

-- Richard