Glimmer DSL for SWT 0.2.1 JRuby 9.2.12.0 Support

Glimmer DSL for SWT 0.2.1 (Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library) has been released with support for the latest JRuby 9.2.12.0. More details can be found in the Change Log.

In other related news, I've been asked to build a Mac App for displaying at-a-glance project progress for a list of tasks.

The tool is called "Are We There Yet?":
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/are-we-there-yet

Thanks to Glimmer, I've been able to prototype in 1 day only and come up with this:

Here are the steps I followed:

• gem install glimmer-dsl-swt
• glimmer scaffold[are-we-there-yet]
• Add ActiveRecord gem and configure a migration for tasks
• Add a Task model
• Add Nebula GanttChart widget jar file and require in main app file.
• Update Glimmer scaffolded AppView and data-bind the table (initial Glimmer GUI took less than 1 hour to implement, including table data-binding, a one-liner in Glimmer)

And voila!

Of course, that is only a prototype. More work needs to be done before it is finished, but not bad for a quick start, right!?

Happy Glimmering!

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