Roassal is an agile visualization engine for Smalltalk-like programming languages. This github repository contains a port for running it on the Amber Smalltalk platform.
This project is developed by Pablo Estefó and mentored by Alexandre Bergel and Manfred Kröhnert. The code was migrated to Amber 0.12 by Oscar Nierstrasz.
To run Roassal, we need you have NodeJS (a JavaScript server) installed.
We first need NodeJS to serve javascript files to your Web Browser. Open a terminal/xterm and type "node --version". If you have something like v0.8.16, then it means you have NodeJS installed. Move to the second step.
If you do not have NodeJS installed, then download one of these installers for the latests verison of nodejs v0.10.12 and double click on it
NodeJs weights only 42 Mb, and will be installed on /usr/local/bin. No big deal.
After this, you should be able to exectue node --version in a terminal. If you still have an error, maybe your PATH variable is not properly set.
We need to run the NodeJS server within the Terminal/xterm to make sure someone will serve the necessary files to your web browser. Start amber's server:
./bin/server
Open http://localhost:4000/index.html in your favourite web browser.
Now you can extend and customize Roamber as you wish… Do you have an interesting idea? Already working on a cool project? Just knock the door! We want to know!
Let's try some examples we have written by going to:
http://pestefo.github.io/roamber/
You can edit them or write your own examples!
If you had any problem running Amber's server we recommend to check the this documentation about building Amber.
This project was sponsored by ESUG and Object Profile. Thanks a lot! :D