Forum: JRuby [ANN] Ruboto 0.5.3 released!

The Ruboto team is proud to announce the release of Ruboto 0.5.3.

Ruboto is a framework for writing full Android apps in Ruby. It includes 
support libraries and generators for creating projects, classes, tests, 
and more.

New in version 0.5.3:

Features:

* Issue #79 Add ANT version check to rake script
* Issue #96 Exception handling
* Issue #98 Market account for Ruboto Core platform
* Issue #100 Improve market prompt image
* Issue #104 Move test scripts to test/src instead of 
test/assets/scripts
* Issue #137 Split ruboto.rb into separate components to require
* Issue #139 Add new startup that is closer to the Java API
* Issue #149 Add Rake task to generate a keystore for releasing to the 
Android Market

Bugfixes:

* Issue #129 Make ruboto gen app fail with more information

Internal:

* Issue #99 Pull common InheritedActivity code into superclass
* Issue #140 Change to use the "bin" directory for temporary build files 
instead of "tmp"
* Issue #145 Restructure stdlib to new JRuby layout

Support:

* Issue #130 BUILD FAILED Target "installd" does not exist in the 
project "Math".

You can find a complete list of issues here:

https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto/issues?state=closed&milestone=9


Installation:

To use Ruboto, you need to install a Java JDK, the Android SDK, Apache 
ANT, and a Ruby implementation.  Then do (possibly as root)

gem install ruboto


To create a project do

ruboto gen app --package <your.package.name>


You can find an introductory tutorial at 
https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto/wiki/Tutorial%3A-Getting-started-with-Ruboto

If you have any problems or questions, come see us at http://ruboto.org/

Enjoy!

--
Uwe Kubosch
http://ruboto.org/