From: Tsume <tsumeruby@...>
Date: 2005-11-30T01:48:42+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI IDE for Ruby

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:37 am, gregarican wrote:
> 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.

Most definitely, it does one thing right, "gets the job done" Which is what 
programming is about, not overzealous tactics, design, etc. There are pros 
and cons to each of the toolkits mentioned. Just a programmers job to try 
them all out to see for self.

Tsume