Shoes cannot find its own backend

Question

I just installed Shoes 4, but when I try the most basic program:

require 'shoes'

Shoes.app { button "test" }

It fails with this error:

NameError: uninitialized constant Shoes::Swt::App

I installed shoes using jruby -S gem install shoes --pre, like it says to on github. Why does Shoes.app give me a NameError?

Answer 1

project maintainer here. That's a clear sheos4 bug/regression - thanks for finding it. This should go to the bug tracker of the project - I opened an issue for it and set it for the next release.

In the meantime, please use the shoes launcher :)

Feel free to report such things directly in our repo (I'm not the most active person on StackOvewrflow) so we can find them quicker. :)

update: issue is fixed on master through this pull request