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

[Richard Dale]

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

It sounds an interesting idea anyway..

-- Richard