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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
>
>

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