ANNOUNCE: Rucola 0.5 released

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Eloy Duran

Hi,

I've just released Rucola 0.5

Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps.
It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake
commands,
eliminating the need to use XCode for the most common tasks.

Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate controllers,
window controllers,
and document-based applications. It also provides APIs for
simplifying some of Objective-C's
ways of doing things.

New in this release:
Dependency resolver:
* You can now specify your dependencies in environment.rb and they
will resolved and vendored in release mode.
This applies to gems and any other ruby lib. Because of this
agnostic system there might still be some edge cases, for this purpose
there's the possibility to specify exceptions.
* In release mode RubyGems will NOT be loaded even if it's required at
some point. This results in application startup time going from ~3
bounces in the dock to ~1.

Deploying:
* Added rake task for packaging a release build in a dmg
* Added rake task for uploading via scp, adding others is easy.
* Added rake task for creating a Sparkle appcast file.
* Added rake task that looks for textile files in ReleaseNotes/
AppName_Version and creates HTML for Sparkle.

Others:
* Added Rucola::FSEvents which is a rubyesque wrapper around FSEvents.
* Added Rucola::Reloader, which uses Rucola::FSEvents to watch the app/
controllers path for modifications and reloads the class.
In debug mode this will be enabled by default, you can override
this setting on the `config` of Initializer.
* Added the Rucola::Log class and an extension to Kernel to access it
easily. (Manfred Stienstra)
* Added Rucola::TestCase which is a test case mixin, like the one in
Rails, which sets up a test case for a controller, defines helper
methods and creates stubs for all ib_outlets that are defined in the
controller.
* Added support for ruby-debug. If a call is made to Kernel.debugger
and the RUBYCOCOA_ENV is 'debug', then the ruby-debug library will be
required and ran.
* NSImage.imageNamed will also look in app/assets for a given image
name.
* Added a script/console script which will run a irb console with the
application loaded. (Jelle Helsen)
* Added a simple model generator, which is simply a subclass of
NSObject.

http://rucola.rubyforge.org/

Cheers,
Eloy
 
S

Sandro Paganotti

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

WOW. seems cool !
Thanks !
 
Y

Yossef Mendelssohn

Hi,

I've just released Rucola 0.5

Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps.
It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake
commands,
eliminating the need to use XCode for the most common tasks.

Rucola provides a set of generators to help you generate controllers,
window controllers,
and document-based applications. It also provides APIs for
simplifying some of Objective-C's
ways of doing things.

New in this release:
Dependency resolver:
* You can now specify your dependencies in environment.rb and they
will resolved and vendored in release mode.
This applies to gems and any other ruby lib. Because of this
agnostic system there might still be some edge cases, for this purpose
there's the possibility to specify exceptions.
* In release mode RubyGems will NOT be loaded even if it's required at
some point. This results in application startup time going from ~3
bounces in the dock to ~1.

Deploying:
* Added rake task for packaging a release build in a dmg
* Added rake task for uploading via scp, adding others is easy.
* Added rake task for creating a Sparkle appcast file.
* Added rake task that looks for textile files in ReleaseNotes/
AppName_Version and creates HTML for Sparkle.

Others:
* Added Rucola::FSEvents which is a rubyesque wrapper around FSEvents.
* Added Rucola::Reloader, which uses Rucola::FSEvents to watch the app/
controllers path for modifications and reloads the class.
In debug mode this will be enabled by default, you can override
this setting on the `config` of Initializer.
* Added the Rucola::Log class and an extension to Kernel to access it
easily. (Manfred Stienstra)
* Added Rucola::TestCase which is a test case mixin, like the one in
Rails, which sets up a test case for a controller, defines helper
methods and creates stubs for all ib_outlets that are defined in the
controller.
* Added support for ruby-debug. If a call is made to Kernel.debugger
and the RUBYCOCOA_ENV is 'debug', then the ruby-debug library will be
required and ran.
* NSImage.imageNamed will also look in app/assets for a given image
name.
* Added a script/console script which will run a irb console with the
application loaded. (Jelle Helsen)
* Added a simple model generator, which is simply a subclass of
NSObject.

http://rucola.rubyforge.org/

Cheers,
Eloy

Sounds like a good release, Eloy. It was definitely too long to wait
to get a Ruby wrapper for FSEvents, though. ;) And, of course, it's
silly to make Rucola a dependency only to use its nice FSEvents
wrapper.

Lately I've been pushing out of the pure-Ruby shell I seem to have
grown around myself. Playing around with Dashcode yesterday was fun
enough, and now this Rucola release makes me want to invent a problem
I can solve with a RubyCocoa app.

Keep up the good work.
 

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