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Testing Swing applications using JRuby

By Matt Fletcher | Published: June 10, 2009

Demetrius Nunes recently posted about his Swinger library to the JRuby mailing list. Swinger uses Cucumber and Jemmy to provide a test harness for automating Swing tests. I responded to Demetrius letting him know how great it is to hear others are interested in automating Swing testing. We’ve been using a combination of FEST and…

Posted in Design & Development, Testing | Also tagged jruby | 1 Comment

Rolling a JRuby desktop application

By Matt Fletcher | Published: July 2, 2008

Atomic has been using JRuby, several Java libraries, and Jar Jar Links to distribute five different Ruby desktop applications (read: not Rails applications) as single, executable jar files. UPDATE (Jan. 30, 2009): Our client has cleared us to spill our guts on the details of the desktop apps discussed here now that the first is…

Posted in Design & Development, Tools | Also tagged jruby | 10 Comments

Desktop Application Development in JRuby

By Shawn Crowley | Published: November 12, 2007

Is JRuby a realistic candidate for authoring complex desktop applications? Yes. UPDATE (Jan. 30, 2009): Our client has cleared us to spill our guts on the details of the project discussed here now that it’s complete… Ruby for Desktop Applications? Yes we can.

Posted in Design & Development, Languages | Also tagged batik, jruby, ruby | 12 Comments