I agree regarding Ruby and Mozilla/Firefox, and have had similar
thoughts myself. I think you are on the right track here, as a nice
Ruby XPCOM interface could give us the same features that Win32OLE
gives us in IE (can anyone say a multi-platform Firefox-based version
of Watir?) Plus general hackery and Firefox automation fun.
I would suggest contacting the author of rbXPCOM and if you don't
receive a response in a week, consider the project abandoned. In that
case I suggest reviving the project and continuing where the original
author left off. The license is a dual MPL/GPL, so this shouldn't be a
problem. If the original author surfaces and wishes to continue
development, we give control back. In the meantime the first priority
should be getting the project working with the latest Ruby and Mozilla
code, then the documentation should be worked on.
I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
guess!
Ryan
···
On 10/15/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anybody have any ideas about this? I'd like to see Ruby injected
into more things like Mozilla/Firefox & OpenOffice.org
The world also needs a solid XulRunner <-> Ruby binding, an idea that
centers around Nathaniel's talk at RubyConf today. I don't know
anything about XR that I didn't learn here: http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner
...but I'm interested in this. Has anyone attempted it? Is it a stupid idea?
--Wilson.
···
On 10/16/05, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/15/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anybody have any ideas about this? I'd like to see Ruby injected
> into more things like Mozilla/Firefox & OpenOffice.org
>
> Anyways, your feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
I agree regarding Ruby and Mozilla/Firefox, and have had similar
thoughts myself. I think you are on the right track here, as a nice
Ruby XPCOM interface could give us the same features that Win32OLE
gives us in IE (can anyone say a multi-platform Firefox-based version
of Watir?) Plus general hackery and Firefox automation fun.
I would suggest contacting the author of rbXPCOM and if you don't
receive a response in a week, consider the project abandoned. In that
case I suggest reviving the project and continuing where the original
author left off. The license is a dual MPL/GPL, so this shouldn't be a
problem. If the original author surfaces and wishes to continue
development, we give control back. In the meantime the first priority
should be getting the project working with the latest Ruby and Mozilla
code, then the documentation should be worked on.
I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
guess!
I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
guess!
No one has yet attempted it. Although, everytime the subject of mozilla and
XPCOM come up on ruby-talk I usually hype the idea in hopes that someone
will get excited enough to take it on.
I also used to offer guidance around the Mozilla codebase since I was once
involved in a massive Mozilla-based project. But, I fear it has now been too
long and I'm sure I don't remember enough to be of any use.
I'd still like to see someone take this on. Having full Ruby support in
Mozilla would make for a killer cross-platform, internet-enabled, rich-GUI
development platform (what a mouthful)!
Curt
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On 10/16/05, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
The world also needs a solid XulRunner <-> Ruby binding, an idea that
centers around Nathaniel's talk at RubyConf today. I don't know
anything about XR that I didn't learn here: XULRunner - MozillaWiki
...but I'm interested in this. Has anyone attempted it? Is it a stupid
idea?
--Wilson.
On 10/16/05, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/15/05, Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody have any ideas about this? I'd like to see Ruby injected
> > into more things like Mozilla/Firefox & OpenOffice.org
> >
> > Anyways, your feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> I agree regarding Ruby and Mozilla/Firefox, and have had similar
> thoughts myself. I think you are on the right track here, as a nice
> Ruby XPCOM interface could give us the same features that Win32OLE
> gives us in IE (can anyone say a multi-platform Firefox-based version
> of Watir?) Plus general hackery and Firefox automation fun.
>
> I would suggest contacting the author of rbXPCOM and if you don't
> receive a response in a week, consider the project abandoned. In that
> case I suggest reviving the project and continuing where the original
> author left off. The license is a dual MPL/GPL, so this shouldn't be a
> problem. If the original author surfaces and wishes to continue
> development, we give control back. In the meantime the first priority
> should be getting the project working with the latest Ruby and Mozilla
> code, then the documentation should be worked on.
>
> I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
> others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
> of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
> guess!
>
> Ryan
>
>
yep, that sounds about right ... firewatir == whiskey!
... but, joking aside I do think it would be a good project ... (
especially if we can get the world to give up on javascript ... using ruby
in the browser instead ... that would nice ... not probable, but nice ).
And, as I stated in my first message, we need support for Ruby scripting in
OpenOffice.org as well.
I'll have to dig in more deeply before I can state ANYTHING with certainty
as to my ability vs this situation.
But, at least it's back on ruby-talk again.
j.
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On 10/17/05, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
> others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
> of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
> guess!
>
> I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
> others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
> of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
> guess!
Whiskey?
how about watirfox, what-a-fox...
martin
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On 10/17/05, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hehehe, that is quite good actually, but I was thinking something more
simple-minded: Fire, or some alternate spelling like Fyre. Though
Whiskey may even be better, hehe.
XULRunner looks really cool. I'll have to do more research into it and
how Ruby can tie into it.
But before we get too side-tracked, it might be a good idea to figure
out what is going on with rbXPCOM, as I said in my last email.
Ryan
···
On 10/17/05, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be willing to lend a hand, and considering how popular Watir is,
> others would probably join in too. I already have a very obvious (but
> of course clever) name for the Firefox version of Watir...take a wild
> guess!
