From: "Pål Bergström" <pal@...>
Date: 2007-02-14T20:12:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Where do you use Ruby?

Richard Conroy wrote:

> What about Eclipse? Thats just a development tool.
> 
> Ruby is a programming language. Its got libraries for networking, file
> manipulation,
> database access, text processing, graphics processing, GUIs etc.
> 
> In short you can use it to make applications that you would normally 
> make
> in another language. (as to which is better, thats an argument for when 
> you
> have decided on the project).
> 
> Examples would include e-mail clients, productivity scripts, bittorrent 
> clients,
> SNMP tools, database clients .... etc. etc. etc.
> 
> Where Ruby really shines is at the lower end of the scale, where I can 
> write
> complex applications in days or less. Java or C equivalents would take 
> weeks
> or possibly months.

I'm learning Ruby via RoR, for developing a web application. But what if
I want to do a "normal" application using Ruby, how do I do that? What
tools are there for building a GUI and connect that to Ruby?

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