[wxruby-users] sample desktop app

[John Kennedy]

Just be sure to organize your code from the beginning.  It's too easy to
write spaghetti code in a scripting language.  Stick with your MVC roots.
It's useful with any kind of application development, not just the web.

But also, don't try to mimic rails, there's a lot of ways to implement MVC,
not just the way rails does.

-jk


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:

> Hi Nathan
>
> Nathan Macinnes wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to develop a desktop application, and since I've done a fair
>> bit of work with RoR before, I figured ruby is a good way to go about
>> it. My application will be largely database driven.
>> I'm looking for a sample desktop application which I can learn a few
>> things from. Obviously the less restrictive the license the better, and
>> it'd also be good if I can find one which is database driven. Google
>> seems to provide very little.. or at least, the results are cluttered by
>> RoR things. I was wondering if anyone in the group knows of any.
>>
> There's a list of some wxRuby applications on the wiki:
> http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?OnlineCodeExamples
>
> Of those, Weft QDA is a database (SQLite) backed application, and has a
> public domain licence.
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/weft-qda/
>
> It uses its own ActiveRecord-like persistence layer, with an Observer
> pattern to update the relevant GUI elements as changes to the database are
> saved. I'd recommend you look at the code in Subversion as its a better
> model for designing database apps.
>
> A disadvantage for study purposes is that its a relatively complex app - >
> 15k lines of ruby code, with a schema running to several hundred lines using
> triggers and views:
> http://weft-qda.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/weft-qda/share/schema.sql
>
> A simpler example to look at might be Ruby SQLite GUI, which is a desktop
> browser for SQLite databases:
> http://rsqlitegui.rubyforge.org/
>
> It uses Ruby-GTK2, rather than wxRuby. GTK2 is another good GUI library,
> long established and with a wide range of widgets. However IMHO it works
> considerably less well on Windows and OS X than it does on Linux, whereas
> wxRuby is equally good on all three.
>
> hth
> alex
>
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