Camille Roux wrote: >> Nobody seems to have taken notice here but shoes is not a library of >> any kind. Its more like a different ruby implementation. It comes with >> its own ruby fork and cannot be installed as a gem or something. > ho, I didn't know that. I understand why I had curiously to use 'shoes' > to launch my project! thanks That's not the problem - lots of apps are true Ruby apps that you start with some other name. Some apps even freeze Ruby and its libraries into themselves. The problem (which I learned about in this thread) is the custom fork of Ruby! I am aware that if anyone could find a technical reason to fork Ruby, Doctor Why could. But still...