If anybody wants to help me out, feel free to contact me, I need all the help I can get. You can fork the project on GitHub if you like, or if you contact me, I can add your GitHub account so you can push directly to the global Ruby.sugar repo.
As for Rails… I, personally, can’t stand Rails, all of my development is “pure ruby” so to speak - but it would be nice to have Rails ‘support’ in the sugar, so if anybody more interested than I in Rails is around, I’d appreciate their help getting some Railsities into the Sugar. (This will be more applicable when Jan works in some sort of ‘snippets’ support as I understand is planned, because there’s no real new syntax involved in Rails).
I am definitely interested in helping out with the Ruby or Rails portions of the sugar. I simply haven’t had the time the last few days due to work to actually sit down and play with it and learn how the sugars work. Hopefully that will change very soon.
I will definitely take a look at your code on GitHub and possibly sign up for an account.
I am definitely interested in helping out with the Ruby or Rails portions of the sugar. I simply haven’t had the time the last few days due to work to actually sit down and play with it and learn how the sugars work. Hopefully that will change very soon.
I will definitely take a look at your code on GitHub and possibly sign up for an account.
Thanks for getting the ball rolling on Ruby!
Thomas (SubtleGradient) is helping as well. You should get in the IRC channel at your first opportunity and discuss it with us (-:
um…out of curiosity, how is the rails aspect of this sugar going? im new to rails, but would love to bug test it if anyone has worked on it. thanks
-zbirdboy
Nothing, that I know of. The GitHub project is dead.
Any work on the Rails aspect kind of depends on me finishing (at least, for the most part) the Ruby.sugar. And that’s going pretty slowly, because there is a lot to do. Ruby’s a very difficult language to describe using only regexen in an XML file, heh.
I just thought I’d let everyone know by bumping this post: The Ruby.sugar is not in the least dead, I just haven’t had a lot of time. Please hit me up on the IRC channel, or through any of my contact mediums, if you want to help out; but please don’t just start a new one willy-nilly d-:
If you’re curious how much is done, have a look at the bottom section of the README.markdown. It has a ‘todo list’ of bits that aren’t completed. Which is still a *lot*.
I’d be willing to help out with the development of either of these sugars, if they’re still being worked on. I’ll drop by the IRC channel as soon as I get the chance.
The github version is working quite well for me. Check in ~/Library/Application Support/Espresso/Sugars to make sure that it was installed correctly, and make sure that your ruby files end in one of .r/.rb/.ruby/.ru . Also, open the Syntax Inspector and see how the syntax is structured—if you see sane ruby-like things (`identifier.variable.constant’ and such) then the syntax highlighting is technically working, and you just have a theming problem. Install one of elliotcable’s themes (which are almost certain to work with the Ruby sugar!), restart Espresso, and see if that helps anything.
That said, I’ve found Espresso’s syntax highlighting to be somewhat hit-or-miss; every third or fourth launch it gets the syntax parsing right (e.g. Syntax Inspector shows sane stuff) but doesn’t do any highlighting. Hopefully 1.1 will fix these things…
I doubt Elliott ever got around to the point of enabling itemizers (which are what enable the Navigator and code folding). He only partially completed the Ruby sugar.
