[Kde-bindings] Qt on Rails - Making the creation of simple Qt apps easier with Ruby

[Ian Monroe]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Declan McGrath <declan at divilment.com> wrote:
> On Monday 30 November 2009 16:02:36 Richard Dale wrote:
>> On Sunday 29 November 2009 10:53:48 pm Declan McGrath wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I'm a Ruby dev interested in qtruby. I'm looking at a way to create a
>> >  Rails-style generator for building simple qtruby apps. I'm unsure of how
>> >  transferable the Rails approach would be to building a Qt app but at a
>> >  minimum I think it would a bit of instant gratification to a Rails dev if
>> >  they could quickly see a qt version of their app running quickly.
>> >
>> > I've started a project to research this at
>> >  http://github.com/theirishpenguin/qtonrails-examples
>> >
>> > If you pull down the code and follow the simple instructions in the README
>> >  you should be able to see the Qt app running through a Rails backend (a
>> >  SQLite db is bundled with it so you don't need to worry about generating a
>> >  db or anything). My Qt skills are not all that, so I would appreciate any
>> >  feedback on the direction I'm taking. I will be learning how to better to
>> >  craft Qt apps over the next while but any pointers early on would be great
>> >  (note the TODO list at the bottom of the README to avoid wasting your time
>> >  on the few things I already am aware of such as blog post that implements
>> >  a better approach to using Qt::AbstractTableModel).
>> I got the code from the git repository, but I couldn't get it to run:
>>
>> $ ./script/generate qmodel Product ../../../app/models/product.rb
>> Couldn't find 'qmodel' generator
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> I suspect you are running ./script/generate qmodel ... from the root of the qtonrails-examples app. Instead try running it from the vendor/plugins/qt directory (there is another script directory there!).
>
> Note that this will fail for out of the box because I already have included some pre-generated qmodels with the app. So delete everything under the qtonrails-examples/vendor/plugins/qt/app/qmodels directory before running the ./script/generate qmodel command again.

Wouldn't it make more sense to just package the whole thing as a ruby
on rails plugin? Kind of confusing how you have it now.

I thought about doing something like this at a previous job. It would
be a Ruby Qt app that would interface with a remote postgresql server.
It would be sooo much nicer then having to make faux-widgets on a
website for an internal database application. I was getting really
sick of AJAX. :)

Ian