From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T13:21:52+09:00
Subject: Re: FAQ for comp.lang.ruby

On Mar 15, 2005, at 20:34, vruz wrote:
>> In addition, I see I have again failed to make a couple of other
>> changes in the FAQ. (Sorry, Matz.)
>> I'll bump it higher on my to-do list.
>
> Another recurring question I've (all of us) have noticed on the ML is
> people trying to decide which GUI toolkits are available or which to
> use for a given task.

Good call, that is asked a whole lot.

> Whilst this is most of the time matter of personal choice based on
> previous programming experience, platform of choice  or aesthetic
> preference, I think we could at least hint people in some of the
> available directions.
>
> I would gladly collaborate to compose such general guidelines to get
> started with.

Whether it ends up in the FAQ or not, I think that would be an amazing 
service to the Ruby-using community.  I don't know how you planned to 
approach it, but one method might be to have the code speak for itself: 
create a simple sample app using the various toolkits, show the code 
and give a screenshot of the result.  (people love screenshots)

Anything you come up with would be great though.  Thanks for proposing 
this.

Ben