[MacRuby-devel] [ANN] Launch: Redwood - Spotlight for the cloud

azzzz at gmx.net azzzz at gmx.net
Mon Aug 1 13:24:33 PDT 2011


Congrats Derek - looks good!

On 1 Aug 2011, at 18:07, Derek Haynes wrote:

> Redwood is a "Spotlight for the cloud" -- it searches Basecamp, Gmail,
> Google Docs, and Pivotal Tracker from one search bar on your desktop.
> You can download Redwood from our homepage:
> 
> http://redwoodapp.com
> 
> We've loved developing the app with MacRuby. Details on the technical guts:
> 
> * MacRuby 0.10, embedded in the application bundle
> * Originally we used the Nokogiri and GData gems. However, we dropped
> these as the load time took several seconds during the application
> launch. A likely cause: gems are not compiled like the application
> code. The performance during application usage was fine.
> * Several Obj-C libraries: Sqlite3 and FMDB for database,
> ASIHTTPRequest for HTTP, Sparkle for auto-update, SBJson, and CocoaFob
> + Potion Store (a Rails app) for licensing.
> * Search results are rendered in HTML/CSS, and events are passed back
> and forth between an embedded Webview and Cocoa
> 
> We'll provide a richer overview of our experience w/MacRuby in a
> couple of weeks on our blog.
> 
> Give the full-featured trial a whirl and let me know how it goes:
> http://redwoodapp.com
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Derek
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