Yes, it's official! Glimmer is back on GitHub with support for JRuby 1.5.6 and Facets 2.9.0.
It also now includes an .rvmrc file to facilitate working with JRuby via RVM and a Gemfile to facilitate pulling in libraries like Facets with the right version.
The project will no longer be hosted on eclipse.org
Check out the GitHub repository over here:
https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer
This will be the main home for the project from this point on.
If you need a refresher on the project, here are some good resources:
-Tutorial
-Article
-Video
Happy Glimmering!
2 comments:
Omg! Thanks. I came across Glimmer like ~5 months ago when I was looking for an alternative GUI toolkit for Ruby. Glimmer seemed perfect, but I was a bit disappointed since I couldn't get it to run.
Glad it's back and up to date. Glimmer fills the spot between direct coding in swt/swing and jruby Monkeybars framework (which recently has been revived as well) but was a bit too heavy weight for me.
" ... but was a bit too heavy weight for me."
I'm curious, as the maintainer of Monkeybars, what you found heavy-weight about it. Is it the separation of code into MVC? The generators handle the boilerplate stuff, and after that you can pop open a text editor and have an app running in five minutes.
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