------ art_48215_14462266.1147140899726 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Tremendously interesting architecture. Are you aware if the loose-coupled slot architecture will work (or will someday work) with components distributed across process spaces (especially, across a network)? On 5/7/06, Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs / gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/7/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000 / gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 5/7/06, Andrew Buchan <bfsog / hotmail.com> wrote: > > > What do you lot code ruby into? > > > > > > Anything like and of bloodshed's or visual studio? > > > > > > > I've just started having a look at FreeRIDE, and took a little extra > > time to install it from scratch. If anyone's interested, I put my > > instructions up here: http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html . Note: > > the FreeRIDE folks have an installer, which they recommend, and which > > does most of that work for you. > > > > I've got pretty high hopes for FreeRIDE: it's code is neat, seems > > modular, and is fairly well-documented. It's licensed under the same > > terms as Ruby itself too. > > > > FreeRide has a unique internal architecture that uses something call the > databus to keep all of the components loosely coupled. You can read about > the databus here: > > http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus > > In FreeRIDE everything is a plugin (except the code responsible for > loading > plugins). Even the GUI frontend is a plugin that uses FXRuby to render the > UI. There are plans to someday write a a wxRuby GUI plugin. > > Curt > > ------ art_48215_14462266.1147140899726--