Re: [ruby-tut] GNOME tutorial draft

[Laurent Sansonetti]

gabriele renzi wrote:
> Here is a temporary draft of the GNOME tutorial. 
> > Please do not hesitate
> > to post any comment, remark, suggestion...
>
>
> here I am!

Thank you!


> > Prerequesite

s/Prerequesite/Prerequisite

I wish I had taken an English course more recently than 5 years!

> >  The stuff needed for the tutorial: a complete
> > GNOME environment + the
> >  ruby-gnome2 binding.
>
>
> what do you mean by "prerequiring" ruby-gnome2
> bindings? won't you put some lines in how to
> get/install them?

Yes, installing GNOME and ruby-gnome is a prerequisite for this tutorial.

In French, prerequisite is translated by 'chose nécessaire' (a thing 
which is necessary).

Which title should I take for this chapter? (something like "Getting 
started" ?)

> Addresses should be saved
>
> > somewhere (marshalling? XML
> >   file?).  
>
>
> I think this is the tipical place where modularity
> appears :) bring up a Config class/obj and show the
> readers how easy they can go from Marshal to plaintext
> a-la unix to xml to dbms to...
>
> It should not be hard, but possibly we could go out of
> the scope of the thing..

This is a very nice idea, but I don't think this tutorial will be the 
ideal place to speak about that.  I think we should stick to GNOME 
related stuff. The reader may be lost.

We should choose one of the proposed solutions (marshal, plaintext, xml, 
dbms, ...?).  I personally like marshal, since it is included by default 
in Ruby , and this is very easy to implement (the reader won't be 
supposed to have specific knowledge about non-Ruby stuff).

Obviously, we can propose these other solutions as an exercise for the 
reader, like Daniel's beginner tutorial.

> I'll agree after I read the chapter, i'm a kde guy ^_^

Maybe the tutorial could be used as an advocacy way to convert some KDE 
guys to GNOME ? ;-)


> Anyway the whole thing sounds wonderful, it's a damn
> bad thing we can't get these goodies for windows users
> too..

As far as I know, ruby-gnome2 is supported by Windows (cygwin).  I will 
try to look after that if I have some time.

Anyway, thank you for your feedback!


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Laurent