[Kde-bindings] Can I put my 'Developing Ruby apps with the QT Designer' tutorial somewhere on KDE Techbase?

[Declan McGrath]

Thanks for the feedback Niels, that's great. I will look at implementing your suggestions soon and I'll post here when done.

Also, can anyone advise as to whether overriding setup_ui() was the correct thing to do in order to add some items to the list - or is there a 'more correct' way of doing this?

All the best,
Declan


On Sunday 16 August 2009 17:33:12 Niels Slot wrote:
> Hi Declan,
> 
> First of all, I'm not one of the QtRuby developers, nor a maintainer of
> Techbase articles. I did wrote one of the Ruby tutorials for Plasma and have
> 2 years of Ruby experience.
> 
> I looked through your tutorial. Basically, it looks nice. You tell the
> reader how Qt Designer works and show sufficient code examples. The tutorial
> is also very verbose, there's no way anyone could miss a step.
> 
> There are some small things that you could do to make it better:
> 
> - You can use the '<code ruby>' tags. This will enable Ruby highlighting for
> snippets of code. There are also special tags for things like tips and
> warnings.
> - Please use 'Qt' not 'QT' when talking about the toolkit.
> - You might want to think about your usage of bullets and numbers in the
> lists. Try to separate the 'do this and that' from the explanation. In the
> paragraph 'Creating the basic application structure' for example you have
> 'run the rbuic4 command' and the explanation of its options on the same
> level.
> You could also, in general, put more of the text as normal text instead of
> as lists.
> - The tutorial could use an abstract. Possibly an introduction and maybe
> some screenshots.
> 
> Great work, I look forward to your reply.
> 
> Niels
> 
> 2009/8/15 Declan McGrath <declan at divilment.com>
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm just drafted a tutorial on developing Ruby apps with the QT Designer on
> > Ubuntu at http://techbase.kde.org/User:Declan.mcgrath
> >
> > If you think it might be useful for your techbase then please let me know
> > with feedback and a location that I can move the page to.
> >
> > I'm new to using QT with the Ruby bindings so I've almost certainly gotten
> > some things wrong but I think it would be useful to have an article that
> > combines using Ruby and the QT Designer. I can't find any such articles. A
> > quick googling of 'ruby qt' gave
> >
> > * http://www.darshancomputing.com/qt4-qtruby-tutorial             Doesn't
> > mention using QT Designer
> > * http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Ruby          Doesn't
> > really explain the steps you'd go through with a new simple Ruby app
> > starting with QT Designer - a lot of 'noise' for the newbie
> > * http://www.kdevelop.org/doc/technotes/rubyrad.html              Out of
> > date and KDE only
> > * http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/RubyGUIProject/                       I
> > found this the most useful. Still not simple enough and a bit out of date
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Declan
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