From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2004-08-12T20:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: What are people using Ruby for?

Hi,

I use Ruby-GTK for my GUI apps. For example, there is
a little tcl/c/tk chess viewer called Scid that I used
to download a lot to view chess games in .pgn files,
but now I have my own viewer which fits perfectly. I
needed a Firebird (database) administrator on Linux,
but now I've written such a tool which is useful
enough  for me. My IRC client is custom-written as
well. And now every GUI tool that I need won't take me
more than 10 minutes to build. My current priority is
to develop the ultimate GUI library (for me at least)
called Gtk_Rules (based on Ruby-GTK, of course) which
should have at least: 1) Very easy and simplified GUI
code; 2) Database support (data-aware components); 3)
PDF Report generation (using PDF-Writer); 4)
Persistence support; etc.

Lots of fun!

Cheers,
Joao

--- jmh <j_m_h@cox.net> wrote:

> I'm not currently a Ruby user but have heard about
> it for a
> while (few years). I've started looking into it and
> will get
> around to compiling it in the next few weeks but was
> curious
> how people are using the language. Is it primarily
> for
> sys admin tasks? Internal applications? External
> customers?
> Commercial applications?
> 
> jmh
> 
> 
> 



		
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