From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2005-11-30T00:37:29+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI IDE for Ruby

Tsume wrote:

> 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

Another alternative worthy of note is Widestudio (www.widestudio.org).
I have checked it out to a certain degree and it appears to be a good
cross-platform solution. Windows, Mac, Linux, Linux Embedded, Solaris,
Windows CE/Pocket PC, etc. At first glance it doesn't appear to be as
appealing widget-wise as Qt or GTK but it is portable.