From: Tsume <tsumeruby@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T13:19:00+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI IDE for Ruby

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 09:17 am, tony wrote:
> Hi all,
> is there a GUI IDE for Ruby? I have to decide on Ruby orJava to start
> developing crossplatform gui applications (developed on Linux) and this
> info is crucial to me.
>
> Thank you for your answers.

The most complete toolkit with available IDE would be
qtruby (qt4 release nears, qt3 is stable). Use kdevelop with this, designer 
app of qt embeds in kdevelop, making code and gui design easy because they 
both hook together. Code generation or loading the ui files are available.

the second most complete toolkit with just an okay IDE would be
ruby-gnome2 (available in just ruby-gtk2, see sourceforge page)
with glade, you just load the glade generated files.

Hope this helps.. Qt is the most stable and advanced, depending on if you have 
the guts to go GPL. If not, use ruby-gnome2

Tsume