= HowTo for BigTinker Program BigTinker is loaded with tinker applets RubyWebDialogs and the rwdtinker framework. 1. Open brower windows 2. run shell commands under linux 3. use a calculator 4. build scripts of math commands 5 run ruby commands in a browser 6. show a calendar 7. address book 8. lookup word definitions 9. run Unix fortune program 10. Read Gutenberg books Includes a hello world application to help building your own. Start the program by typing ruby init.rb Then point your web browser to: http://localhost:7705/ To exit, press the x inside the browser window. == HelpAbout click on the ? on the top right to see version numbers == 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 Requirements: RubyWebDialogs - I am using 0.0.11 2004-3-9 This package you downloaded rwddemo should have a runtime version of the needed rubywebdialog files Ruby I am using version 1.8.2 I have tested this under Linux-Debian kernel 2.6.9 Operation: The code files reside in the code directory and are combined before the main Class is loaded The rwd files in gui are combined before the gui is activated Installing: untar the file tar zxvf rwdshell-x.y.tar.gz then cd to the directory cd rwdshell-x.y then start the init.rb program file ruby init.rb Trouble shooting: If the program is not working, try looking at the ev subdirectory. That is where the runtime of rubywebdialogs are. for long term installation, I would suggest putting most files in a lib directory like /usr/lib/rwdshell then make a writable directory the local directory for command files to be written like ~/rwdshell Closing the browser doesn't terminate the application. You have to use the application's close-button And terminating the application doesn't terminate the application when running in network mode. You just log out. Don't use the back-button of the browser! Strange and unpredictable things may and will happen! RubyWebDialogs is a platform independent graphical user interface for Ruby applications. It generates HTML and serves it with an internal HTTP server, so you can use your favorite web browser as the front end for your Ruby application. All this means, that it can be used on almost every platform, like Ruby itself. http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubywebdialogs/ 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 0.96 update for rwdtinker 1.80 Version 0.95 updated for rwdtinker 1.76 Move rwd code files into lib directory - change tab name list applets change extra folder to be lib folder remove duplicate intall applet code On Menu tab/Selection Tab - add help button clean up directory structure in gui directory - Version 0.93 Added rwdAddresses Added rwdWords Added rwdGutenberg Added rwdHypernote updated for rwdtinker 1.65 reorganized helpabout reorganized documents Version 0.92 added help to some shell tabs updated for rwdtinker 1.62 - improve distro release script changed selection screen to use new hash method updated diagnostic tab version 0.91 created ruby script editing added rconftool use to update configuration files changed applets removal to not use external rm removed version number from directory name version 0.90 updated for rwdtinker 1.54 - gem applet downloading updated the calendar added math script handling Version 0.80 Update for rwdtinker 1.44 updated rwdcalc version 0.70 updated for rwdtinker version 1.40 version 0.60 Reorganized code for rwdtinker 0.9 and later. Added several new tabs Produced RubyGem release.