On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:03:57PM -0700, Vijay wrote: > But my question is whether there is an issue with using net/http library in > general with shoes ?
Not really, you'll just need to place it in a thread and it'll be slower. Threads in Ruby are green threads, so you can't get true threading with Net::HTTP. > 1. What if I my shoes app on startup asks user to put it credentials and I > verify it against a server before the app starts? In this case, I would like > to be blocked till the operation is complete. Sure, you can pop up one window to ask for credentials, then open a new window and close the first. There can be multiple `Shoes.app` blocks, even nested ones. > 2. A more complicated scenario. > I am given an authentication library [ written in ruby] from another > developer and that is what I am supposed to use. If that library uses > net/http to authenticate, how can I integrate such a library with shoes > given that I encounter the net/http problem with shoes. Yes, this is the trouble, of course. You could e-mail the author about supporting other HTTP libs. Or you could swap in the `download` method yourself -- after all, there's not much code to the actual connection usually. It depends on how complex the auth library is. For example, many people feel they need to use a lib to do basic HTTP auth. But it's only three lines of code really. I'm also open to changing things around if I've got it all wrong, naturally. _why
