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Choes helps you to switch between various implementations of "the best little DSL for GUI programming there is" Shoes!

To use it, stick all your Shoes in a single directory. Choes will look in /opt/shoes or $HOME/.shoes by default. Or you can set $SHOES_DIR to where you keep yours.

Suppose you cloned Choes to a directory named ${CHOES}, then in your .bashrc or .zshrc simply

. ${CHOES}/share/choes/choes.sh

Now you can choes green, choes red or choes 4 to switch back and forth. It works by altering the $PATH and $RUBYLIB environment variables.

Choes is still very, very young. I'm only testing it on Ubuntu Linux at the moment. It should probably work on Mac OS X as well. Any feedback running it your platform of choice is very appreciated! Open an issue or come talk on the Shoes mailing list. (just mail to shoes [at] librelist [dot] com and it will automatically subscribe you.)

Chruby / RVM integration

Choes has a generic hook to run extra commands after switching to a certain Shoes. This can be used to do some implementation specific changes to your environment, like activating a specific Ruby. Have a look at choes-chruby.sh and choes-rvm.sh to see how this can be used.

Notes on implementations

Choes expects to find an executable bin/shoes or dist/shoes. Some colors use different names like gshoes or swt-shoooes. In those cases make a symlink from bin/shoes and you're good to go.

Red Shoes

When cloning Red Shoes, I recommend naming the directory red_shoes to prevent ambiguities.

shoes-install.sh

I'm documenting extra steps needed beyond git clone to install specific implementations in the shoes-install.sh file. At this point I don't recommend running those functions directly, but rather to use them as documentation.

Thank you <3 <3 <3

All the great people who have contributed to all these colorful shoes! And a big thanks to @postmodern for Chruby, since Choes borrows heavily from Chruby.

License

see LICENSE.txt