Simple Monkeybars Skeleton App
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A very simple JRuby Monkeybars app to get you up and running quickly.

Monkebars? 

Monkeybars is pretty cool. It allows you to create cross platform 
desktop applications using Swing on top of JRuby. It provides an MVC
framework a bit like Rails. No Java knowledge is required either (well almost!).


Install instructions
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Grab a copy of this git repo and then...

Fire up NetBeans 

Setup the project
1. File > New Project. Choose Java category > Java Project with existing sources
2. Give your app a name and set the project folder to where you created your app [hit next]
3. Existing sources - choose the src directory in your app [hit finish]

Add the libraries
1. Expand the app project tree (usually on the right hand side)
2. Right click the Libraries folder. Choose ‘Add Jar/Folder’ 
3. Select and add all of the jars inside of the lib/java folder.

Run the App
1. Click the run (green play) button. This will build and run your app.
2. A prompt will first appear and ask which file you wish to use for the main.class.
   Choose ‘org.rubyforge.rawr.Main’
3. All going to plan the app will now start!


Package your app and distribute for Mac, Windows, or Linux variants (via a Jar)
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Open a terminal to where the app is located. And run one of the following:

rake rawr:bundle:app # Bundles the jar from rawr:jar into a native Mac OS X application (.app)
rake rawr:bundle:exe # Bundles the jar from rawr:jar into a native Windows application (.exe)
rake rawr:jar  


Pre-install Requirements
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JRuby 1.1.5  (or greater)
NetBeans 6.1 (or greater)

Gems:

monkeybars 0.6.2
rawr       1.1.0


About
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This sample app was created by Martin Sadler
http://www.beyondthetype.com


For more information on Monkeybars visit:
http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org