[Kde-bindings] Ruby Qt4 + net/http operations

[Ruben Fonseca]

Hi @all!

I'm doing some experiments with Ruby Qt4 (using version 1.4.10 on Debian
unstable).

I was trying to build a GUI to a library I wrote that interacts with a
website using its API. However, I run into difficulties when trying to
integrate my library (that mainly uses net/http to make HTTP calls) with
Qt4.

AFAIK, Ruby Qt4 currently does not support QThread objects. Since my
library blocks on network operations, I couldn't find a way to integrate
it with Qt4.

I've tried to create a Ruby thread:

def button_clicked
   Thread.new {
	# do my blocking networking code
   }
end

but the thread seems to freeze somehow during the network operation
(weird..)

the other think I've tried was to add the operation to a
QTimer.singleShot block. However, while the code is running, the entire
GUI is frozen (which I think makes sense).

Is it possible to do this kind of stuff with the current Qt4 Ruby
bindings?

Thank you
Ruben
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