From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2007-01-02T13:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: What should i start off with


On Jan 1, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Peter Manning wrote:
> A last question, is there any options to make GUI programming easier,
> and faster. A tool like Ruby On Rails, just for GUI programming?
> Even though ruby doesnt demand as much lines as c++ for an example, it
> is still many lines you have to write before something happends  
> when you
> use GUI tools.

If you're interested in RoR's data handling features, you might want  
to consider using activerecord with sqlite in the context of a GUI  
application.  You can also use activesupport from rails to get some  
of the neat features like '3.days.ago'.  Or even use the whole rails  
stack.  I've been doing this for CLI applications for awhile.   
Although it takes a bit of time to load the rails environment, it's  
often worth the added functionality.
-Mat