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

[Declan McGrath]

I've implemented the suggestions put forward thus far. Any further
feedback is greatly appreciated. The article is still at
http://techbase.kde.org/User:Declan.mcgrath

Also, I've tried to upload a snapshot to the article but I get

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to
allocate 70 bytes) in
/home/wikis/public/mediawiki_src/extensions/OpenID/OpenID.i18n.php on
line 1739

It's only a 127k file so I'm not sure what the problem would be.

Regards,
Declan


On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Niels Slot<nielsslot at gmail.com> 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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