From: Jeff Cohen <cohen.jeff@...>
Date: 2006-03-22T13:30:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: .Net => Ruby Questions

Dru wrote:
> If I am a .Net developer and I want to build a windows GUI I use 
> System.Windows.Forms . What do I use in ruby?
> 
> In .Net there are namespaces. What is the equivilent in Ruby?
> 
> What is out there to support Web Services for ruby?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dru

Hi Dru,

Welcome to the Ruby world!  There aren't too many easy choices yet for 
doing Ruby on Windows, but you might want to check out John Lam's 
project for letting you program against .NET assemblies from within Ruby 
code (www.iunknown.com).  It's still under development.

Otherwise, people seem to be using other cross-platform GUI libraries 
like Tk and Gtk; and I haven't tried it but you can check out 
VisualURuby which claims to be an easier GUI library specialize for Ruby 
on Windows (http://ruby.codezoo.com/pub/component/5196?category=366).

If you find something that works for you (or not), I'd like to hear 
about it.

Jeff
www.softiesonrails.com

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