From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2006-07-10T23:24:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

On 7/10/06, Marcelo <barberomarcelo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, yes, I saw that page, but for what I saw, most of them are in early
> development or dead. The only one apparently working is the Ruby/Gnome.

Then you've gotten some bad information. FXRuby is a little over five
years old, and FOX (the GUI toolkit it's based on) is at least eight
years old. Both FOX and FXRuby are being actively developed, with a
new major release in the last few months.

You mentioned Ruby/GNOME. There's also the Ruby/Qt bindings, which I
understand to be very good, and wxRuby seems to be coming along very
well.

> Am I wrong? Who is doing GUI development in Ruby and what are they
> using? (please, Tk is awful both in Ruby and Python) I think that in
> GUI development, Ruby is far behind Python, and that is something that
> keeps me from stepping into Ruby.

I don't think there's one GUI toolkit that dominates the field. Other
than Ruby/Tk, I get the impression that the "big three" right now are
Ruby/GNOME, Ruby/Qt and FXRuby.