Purple Shoes

Porting Green Shoes with JRuby and SWT.

Install JRuby and Purple Shoes for Windows

download and install JRuby 1.6.7 Windows Executable
jruby --1.9 -S gem install purple_shoes

The swt gem will be installed automatically.

Install JRuby and Purple Shoes for Linux and OS X

install rvm
rvm install jruby
gem install purple_shoes

Look at the command line help

jruby --1.9 -S pshoes -h


Usage: pshoes (options or app.rb)
  -m, -men     Open the built-in English manual.
  -mjp         Open the built-in Japanese manual.
  -v           Display the version info.
  -h           Show this message.

Note: If you set an environment variable like this: set JRUBY_OPTS=--1.9, you can do just only pshoes -h.

Note to OSX Users

You'll need to pass an extra argument to JRuby's JVM for SWT to work on OSX. Your command line should look like this:

jruby -J-XstartOnFirstThread --1.9 sample2.rb

Open the built-in manual

Note: Need to install Hpricot: jruby --1.9 -S gem install hpricot

jruby --1.9 -S pshoes -m

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