Comments on: Sinatra: The answer to my Ruby GUI problem http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/ruby-to-gui-or-not-to-gui/ == exactly that. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/ruby-to-gui-or-not-to-gui/comment-page-1/#comment-30 admin Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:09:22 +0000 http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/ruby-to-gui-or-not-to-gui/#comment-30 I actually found the Sinatra peepcode extremely useful. http://peepcode.com/products/sinatra also, have you heard of devchix? http://www.devchix.com/ Their google group is awesome, with tons of interesting threads on diff languages. Lots of the girls on there are very awesome Ruby developers. I learn a lot just from reading the correspondence, actually. And yes, it was the K&R. I don't necessarily hate it anymore. It was just a rough start for me. ;) Cheers! I actually found the Sinatra peepcode extremely useful. http://peepcode.com/products/sinatra

also, have you heard of devchix? http://www.devchix.com/ Their google group is awesome, with tons of interesting threads on diff languages. Lots of the girls on there are very awesome Ruby developers. I learn a lot just from reading the correspondence, actually.

And yes, it was the K&R. I don’t necessarily hate it anymore. It was just a rough start for me. ;)

Cheers!

]]> By: another girl with a computer http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/ruby-to-gui-or-not-to-gui/comment-page-1/#comment-17 another girl with a computer Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:56:38 +0000 http://www.girlwithcomputer.com/ruby-to-gui-or-not-to-gui/#comment-17 Wow, is wanting to write GUIs a girl thing? I too have been having a problem with finding a GUI solution under Ruby. I wrote a few little programs under Shoes but got discouraged after _why disappeared because I figured the project would be abandoned. I too asked my dear Ruby hacker friend if there were any other options and I got the same reply as you. I too have been jealous of Python programmers and their more supported GUI options, though I won't go THERE because said Ruby hacker friend would be appalled. I suppose web apps are the future, so moving to Sinatra/Rails + JS is probably the best choice anyway. What resources did you use to get acquainted with Sinatra? Were there any tutorials that you found helpful, or did you just plow through the project's documentation? I am new to web programming myself and I have been struggling with the decision of whether I want to start with the big framework with more documentation and more overhead (Rails) versus the small framework that has less overhead but has less documentation. (Sinatra) I'd like to know what you think since you seem to be in the same boat as I am. As for the C book.. was it a copy of K & R? I have a copy of it myself and I like it, though I haven't finished the whole book. I'd love to be a C hacker someday, but as they say, one thing at a time. Wow, is wanting to write GUIs a girl thing? I too have been having a problem with finding a GUI solution under Ruby. I wrote a few little programs under Shoes but got discouraged after _why disappeared because I figured the project would be abandoned. I too asked my dear Ruby hacker friend if there were any other options and I got the same reply as you. I too have been jealous of Python programmers and their more supported GUI options, though I won’t go THERE because said Ruby hacker friend would be appalled. I suppose web apps are the future, so moving to Sinatra/Rails + JS is probably the best choice anyway.

What resources did you use to get acquainted with Sinatra? Were there any tutorials that you found helpful, or did you just plow through the project’s documentation? I am new to web programming myself and I have been struggling with the decision of whether I want to start with the big framework with more documentation and more overhead (Rails) versus the small framework that has less overhead but has less documentation. (Sinatra) I’d like to know what you think since you seem to be in the same boat as I am.

As for the C book.. was it a copy of K & R? I have a copy of it myself and I like it, though I haven’t finished the whole book. I’d love to be a C hacker someday, but as they say, one thing at a time.

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