fxruby users - Aug 2005 - > ssh/sftp/scp gui client in Ruby

"I''d rather see that energy expended towards something innovative.
"

While I completely agree with that statement, my personal opinion is 
that it would be nice to have a ssh/sftp/scp client in ruby EVEN
if it is not finished. (Reason follows soon)

"If there''s any interest, I might continue to work on it"

Dont worry, just abandon it if you dont want to work on it,
better to have a project that is more interesting / more needed.  :)

What I would think could be a good idea, though, is, to invest a 
bit time especially concerning to have a base documentation about
it (i.e. you hack some Ruby/FXRuby code and document it, but you dont
bother to finish it completely). 
This can be very helpful for newbies, who often
have a problem to find good documentation. 

( On a german wiki there was a FXRuby example for a simple
FXRuby notepad, this was nice in that newbies can reuse that code
easily and add whatever they want to add do it ... *tweaking* it. 
Those examples should become much more prominent, and more different
wiki styles deployed in general covering FXRuby too. I especially
like the Gentoo Wikis, even though i am not a Gentoo User, they
provide nice knowledge) :)

Just my 1 old cc 

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On Aug 20, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Roebe XXX wrote:
> What I would think could be a good idea, though, is, to invest a
> bit time especially concerning to have a base documentation about
> it (i.e. you hack some Ruby/FXRuby code and document it, but you dont
> bother to finish it completely).
> This can be very helpful for newbies, who often
> have a problem to find good documentation.
This is an excellent point. The lack of tutorial-style documentation 
and examples is probably the biggest shortcoming for FXRuby. If anyone 
has written some such documentation, I''d love to add pointers to it 
from the FXRuby home page.

Gentlemen,

These comments are very insightfull and I really appreciate that you
all have taken me so seriously on this. I wish I could say that such
as I''ve gotten done had enough merit to warrant it (my integration of
Net::ssh at this point involves making sure it doesn''t generate an
error when I ''include'' it).

Seems I''ve never been much of a GUI programmer in the past, and
largely because of the dearth of decent tools and instructional
material. Lets  just say that though I''m a rather experienced
programmer, almost none of it has dealt with graphics/display/widget
libraries or coding constructs  like callbacks.

In short, I''m really a bit of a newbie.

Maybe I can make that work for us.

I think I will continue the project, if not to produce a robust
ssh/sftp client, then to produce a fairly simple implementation and
document it to death. It will greatly bootstrap my education in this
regard and maybe someone else''s down the road. I''ll
necesarilly be
dependent on the good will of the community to help me get it together
(as if I weren''t already so dependent).

If you guys are up for helping me along the way, I''ll do the nuts and
bolts stuff and turn it over to the community when it reaches a
satisfactory level of completion. I''m thinking the documentation
should be embedded in the source, and should include suggestions for
tweaking it out into a more full featured and robust app.

Not precisely the same project I started, but its definitely something
I can get heart and head around.

Your thoughts?

Thanks!
Twitch


On 8/20/05, Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Roebe XXX wrote:
> 
> > What I would think could be a good idea, though, is, to invest a
> > bit time especially concerning to have a base documentation about
> > it (i.e. you hack some Ruby/FXRuby code and document it, but you dont
> > bother to finish it completely).
> > This can be very helpful for newbies, who often
> > have a problem to find good documentation.
> 
> This is an excellent point. The lack of tutorial-style documentation
> and examples is probably the biggest shortcoming for FXRuby. If anyone
> has written some such documentation, I''d love to add pointers to
it
> from the FXRuby home page.
> 
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