Pivotal Labs Talks: Using Shoes to Have Fun

Shoes is a tiny graphics toolkit that embeds ruby. It allows you to do anything. You can draw squares and circles and they can move about and say "Good Morning" when they chance upon each other. Shoes lets you add layouts to your applications with ease. It borrows ideas from Processing, Lua, and HTML to make an intuitive language to convert your ideas into programs that you can share with your friends.

This talk begins with a Shoes introduction for Ruby programmers. It won't take much to get up and running and we can move straight into a practical application of Shoes: prototyping iPhone apps. It turns out Shoes is excellent for quickly implementing ideas, testing workflow, and fleshing out the code structure. It's nice to do this stuff in Ruby first before porting it to Objective-C.

We will also cover how to debug shoes applications and a look into the Shoes source code.

Speakers: Tim Elliott