From: jazzy <jazzy1One@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T14:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: what can i do with Ruby??

On Feb 15, 11:54 pm, Jim Clark <diegosl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> jazzy wrote:
> > I have a visual basic 6 program I made which stores databases and
> > allows the user to input data and get calculations from day to day. It
> > uses dao. There a many different windows that come up to input various
> > preferences and data calculations.
>
> > Can I build such a program with Ruby or is Ruby more for dos based
> > systems or for only web development?
>
> Yes you can build such a system. In the same way that Visual Basic is
> used in many different settings (stand alone programs, VB Script, web
> site back ends, etc.), Ruby can do these same things. There are GUI
> toolkits for Ruby (Tk, Fox / FXRuby, wxRuby, GTK, and Qt to name a few)
> for stand alone development,

So I need to choose and get one of these GUI toolkits? Which would be
best for this sort of windows type prgrams? Are they free downloads as
well? thanks a lot! I'll do a search on those.


> Jim