From: Marcelo <barberomarcelo@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T02:30:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

Very good summary. I'll take a look on Fx and Qt. Thanks.

gregarican wrote:
> After reviewing both sites in terms of their documentation it does
> indeed appear that Ruby's Wx implementation lacks a considerable amount
> of classes. That taken with your observation that the last release
> update was almost two years ago, might place wxRuby down there is the
> ranks of GUI toolkit consideration if you are looking for a current and
> complete offering.
>
> That narrows things down to Fox, GTK, and Qt. From what I have read and
> experienced the Ruby Qt implementation is current and very active. As
> in version 4.x. The original Ruby-GNOME project is obsolete and been
> replaced with Ruby-GNOME2, which also appears to be current and active.
> As in the last revision update being this month. Then as others have
> posted, FXRuby is worthy of consideration. It's last revision update
> was just a couple of months ago and it is gaining popularity from what
> I have seen.
>
> Personally, I haven't used FxRuby but have used Ruby implementations of
> GTK and Qt. Of those two to me I felt more comfortable with Qt. Taking
> all of the licensing bias aside it just seemed a better fit in terms of
> Ruby's OO and mindset. The GTK option just felt more "jammed in" to
> make it fit into Ruby's world. Just my feelings using them.