From: Joe V. D. <joe...@gm...> - 2006-01-15 02:24:56
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On 1/14/06, Masao Mutoh <mu...@hi...> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:53:11 +0100 > Mathieu Blondel <mbl...@ru...> wrote: <snip> > > > 6. I don't know why "Ruby-gnome2 in action" go RubyZilla. > > > > > It was meant to show "Ruby-GNOME2 in action" so I linked to your RubyZi= lla > > demo (ie something which "shows"). > > > I don't like to force everyone to watch 10 min movie. > I prefer to introduce samples first. Just a note, one of the major reasons while Rails got so popular was that people watched the movie of David quickly creating a blog (or some other small webapp). A movie can say a thousand words. One of these days, I'd like to quickly create a semi-complex GUI using ruby-gnome2 as a way to promote using the language and toolkit at my workplace. I think that's one of the best ways to promote something -- to see it in action without having the user have to download code samples and install ruby, the gtk dev libraries, and ruby-gnome2 before they can see it in action. Joe |