[MacRuby-devel] Any volunteers to help maintain http://www.macruby.org?
Eloy Duran
eloy.de.enige at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 02:36:40 PDT 2009
Here's a smaller/simpler example of creating a gist, although it uses
RubyCocoa (it's written for LimeChat), it would be easy to port that
MacRuby: http://github.com/alloy/CocoaGist/tree/master
Cheers,
Eloy
On 20 aug 2009, at 08:57, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
> Haha, let's add that to the todo list.
>
> Writing a GUI for webby shouldn't be that hard using MacRuby + webkit.
> Integration with git can easily be done using grit http://grit.rubyforge.org/
> (we don't even need to fork or push to the repo, we can save the
> blog posts as gists http://gisthub.com/ check Greg's macruby project
> to see how he did it: http://github.com/atduskgreg/drift/tree/master )
>
> Anyone feels like hacking on a cool little project? (it would be a
> nice demo project to ship with MacRuby ;) )
>
> - Matt
>
> p.s: Jordan, why do Apple people always want others to do things in
> a easier/more intuitive way? ;)
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh at apple.com>
> wrote:
> Gosh, if only there were some way of writing some sort of graphical
> application which could make composing, previewing and submitting
> blog posts like this a one or two button click operation rather than
> having to do all those tedious manual steps! It would have to have
> a nice looking UI, of course, and some widgets for previewing HTML/
> other content. If it could also be written in some sort of high-
> level language which let one do this in the fewest lines of code,
> well that would be just icing on the cake! Man, it's just too bad
> we don't have anything that fancy and have to send people to the
> command-line all the time instead! ;-)
>
> - Jordan
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
>> Alright, things are now setup and contribution should be easier
>> (patches against svn are also accepted).
>>
>> How to contribute content for the website using github:
>>
>> * fork the website repo on github: http://github.com/mattetti/macruby_website/
>> * clone and pull your branch locally
>> * create a new topic branch, work on the post, git rebase
>> interactive/squash commits
>> * push your branch/commit to your branch and email the list/me to
>> let us know that the article is ready
>> * I'll cherry pick your commit and push it to the svn repo
>> * after verification, Laurent will redeploy the site.
>>
>> Advice:
>>
>> * try to communicate with other contributors so we don't end up
>> with 2 people working on the same post.
>> * if you want to cover something that isn't a status update or
>> major change, please get in touch with one of us or post to the
>> mailing list.
>> * I might be on a trip or not available so don't hesitate to send
>> me a reminder or contact the mailing list if I don't get back to you.
>>
>> Technical details about the blog engine:
>>
>> The website is developed using webby http://webby.rubyforge.org/
>> You obviously need to have webby installed on your machine. ($ sudo
>> gem install webby)
>> Using $ webby autobuild will let you preview the site in your
>> browser.(it should run and open http://localhost:4331/)
>> To create a new blog post template, simply do: $ webby blog:post
>>
>> Mike, if that's ok with you, could you write a tutorial ($ webby
>> create:tutorial ) on how to write and submit a blog post?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>> Thanks Mike, I already wrote your name down ;)
>> I'm working on setting up some stuff so contributing will be easier.
>>
>> Once everything setup, I'll write an email explaining how to
>> contribute and maybe the first task would be to write a tutorial on
>> how to contribute content to the website :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Matt
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Mike Sassak <msassak at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> I'm game. Where do I sign up?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2009 6:22 PM, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh at apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> As folks can see, there IS a blog there, but it was last updated
>>> back in March, Laurent & friends preferring to use email for
>>> communicating status. Since we have a blog, however, it also
>>> makes sense to keep it relatively current for those folks who are
>>> new to the macruby.org site and looking for signs of life. This
>>> is obviously not a highly technical task we're talking about, just
>>> transcribing the highlights of the email status reports and
>>> whatever else seems to be topical (the recent merge of the
>>> experimental branch to trunk, for example).
>>>
>>> This would also be a fine task for a more junior project member
>>> looking for an opportunity to start contributing to the project
>>> without having to grok the mysteries of MacRuby's internals first,
>>> and it's an important contribution since it will help keep folks
>>> who enjoy scanning blogs (but not subscribing to mailing lists) up
>>> to date!
>>>
>>> Any takers?
>>>
>>> - Jordan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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