= RubySlippers Frontend for RubyGems How To use RubySlippers - a frontend for RubyGems The configuration file is at: configuration/rubyslippers.cnf There you can change the location of your gemspec files. = Quick Start You should unzip the program in a directory you have assess to. at the command line run: ruby init.rb Point your browser at http://localhost:7705 or where it tells you = View Gem Use the "View Gem" tab You can view the list of gems you have installed by clicking on the list files button You can view the contents of the gemspec file by typing or pasting a name in. When you are finished press the open button (leave off the .gemspec ending) = Install Gem Using the "Install Gem" tab You can list the Gems available in the repository Click on the button. It will take several seconds then should show the list. To install a gem, enter the name into to textbox and click on the install Gem button You should see the result of the command on the screen You can check in the first tab if it is installed. = Gem Commands: Go to "Gem Commands" tab
You can view the setup that Gem has on your system. Click on Show Environment This will show your setup You can run a Gem command or a shell command Enter the command in the box and press the Run Command button It displays the result of the command on the screen. = Gem Files: Go to "Gem Files" tab You can view the files that are installed for applications Click on Show Gem Dirs This will show your list of Gems installed Click on Show Application Files This will show your list of files installed == Rubyslippers Back Window From the Selection Panel you can click on the Rubyslippers Back Window This window has tabs to help you in building gems == Add Info To view gemspecs you already have see the View Gemspec tab For edits to gemspec go to the Edit Gem tab At the Build Gem tab You can Rename gemspec Delete gemspec copy gemspec When building a gem the The Gem name should be pointing to the Gemspec that you want Gem Directory box should be pointing to the top directory of you source files Have alot of fun! give me bug reports and suggestions. = Problem solving On my Linux system I changed permissions on my gem directory to allow the nonprovileged user to install gems. = Documents when you click on a document name, the document should pop up in a browser window, or in another browser tab. == Using over a Network To serve the application over your local LAN,change the last line in the init.rb file to something like: RwdTinker.file(RWDFile).serve(8080, "-r" ? ".rwduids" : nil) Then you should be able to login at: http://yourhostname:8080 You have to authorize yourself. The .rwuids example is a string with the name of the authorization file, relative to the home directory of the user that started the service. This file has to be in the form of: user1 = password user2 = pass phrase Thus the file .rwduids might contain: erik = secret ==Contacts For more information see: http://rwdapplications.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl For more information about RubyWebDialogs see: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubywebdialogs/index.html Thanks, Steven Gibson =Changelog version 1.01 add in test harness fix gem list input added in dependencies to gemcommands added gemspec filename to editgemspec tab added gemwhich command version 1.00 correct view gemspec screen added rconftool use to update configuration files changed applets removal to not use external rm removed version number from directory name version 0.99 bug fix - "view gem" tab - name selection version 0.98 updated for rwdtinker version 1.50 changed width of text fields with help from RubyWebDialogs author added commands on option pulldown: search,search --remote,specification,uninstall corrected directory list on gemspec build tab - to not show files added gem directory file list tab - on the back window added RubySlippers Menu tab for easier navigation version 0.97 added some context sensitive help added edit config file and reload config variables change to tinker context help script updated for rwdtinker 1.47 back window now calls tab Version 0.96 updated for rwdtinker 1.44 - refactored gui files Changed gui directory names - more like Java package titles added error feedback on gem commands added help for configuration file Version 0.95 Updated for version 1.42 - semi-live updates should work Changed gem commands tab - added pull down choices Added tab for viewing Rubyslippers configuration file Added back window with tabs for building gems Added list gemspec files view a gemspec file Edit a gemspec Rename, copy, delete gemspec file build gem Version 0.94 Updated to version 1.4 of rwdtinker added more i18n fixes updated l10n files es, jp, nl Version 0.93 Updated to version 1.3 of rwdtinker Version 0.92 Added to version 1.23 of rwdtinker created gemspec Version 0.91 Changed download of remote gem list - should now work on XP - avoids SystemStackError added txt file to hold downloaded list Changed order on list installed gems directories Fixed view gemspec - it was totally broken! (bug introduced in 0.8) Version 0.9 Added scan for gem_server links for gem_server content Version 0.8 Improved file selection Version 0.7 Was updated to work with rwdtinker version 0.9 Version 0.6 fixes to work under XP wrong variable in listfiles function added configuration for XP vs Linux systems updated the rwdrefreshacpi applet in zips Version 0.5 first applet added gem files tab - should list install app files Version 0.4 first public version released using rwdtinker framework