Shoes-Qt

A Qt backend for Shoes 4.

Prerequisites

Tested on

• OS X 10.7, with rvm ruby 1.9.3-p125, and qt 4.8.1, installed via Homebrew.
• Ubuntu 11.10, with rvm ruby 1.9.3-p194, and qt 4.7.1, installed via apt-get.

These instructions assume that you have git installed, and ruby 1.9.3 installed via rvm.

OS X

Install qt, clone the git repo, and install the qtbindings gem.

$ brew install qt cmake
$ git clone https://github.com/wasnotrice/shoes-qt.git
$ cd shoes-qt
$ gem install qtbindings

Linux

These instructions are for Ubuntu. Modify as needed for your flavor.

Install qt, clone the git repo, and install the qtbindings gem.

$ sudo apt-get install libqt4-ruby libqt4-dev qt4-qmake cmake
$ git clone https://github.com/wasnotrice/shoes-qt.git
$ cd shoes-qt
$ gem install qtbindings

Windows

Clone the repo, and install qtbindings (also installs qt).

> git clone https://github.com/wasnotrice/shoes-qt.git
> cd shoes-qt
> gem install qtbindings

Using Shoes 4

Shoes 4 is not yet published as a gem. This repo contains the Shoes 4 repo as a submodule, though. You can find it in the shoes directory. The rake tasks and bin/shoes include this directory already, but if you need the Shoes 4 code, that's where it is.

Verifying your setup

Try running

$ bin/shoes samples/simple-app.rb

You should see a blank "Shoes 4" window.

Testing

$ rake spec:integration # Run the Shoes test suite with the Qt backend

To add a spec to the Qt suite, first tag it with :qt in the shoes4 repo, like this:

it "knocks socks off", :qt do
   # ...
end

Then, update the version in the shoes-qt repo:

$ cd shoes
$ git pull
$ cd ..
$ git commit -m "Update shoes"

and you're good to go.