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

[Craig Williams]

Very nice!


> 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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