From: Alex Fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2007-04-02T08:55:14+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI Toolkit

Mark Chandler wrote:
> Which of the cross-platform GUI toolkits has the best documentation, is
> most stable, and is as "native-friendly" as possible? I've been scouring
> around but I keep finding different results and different dates, so I'm
> not sure which to trust.

If native is important, you might want to consider WxRuby: http://wxruby.rubyforge.org. It wraps the popular WxWidgets toolkit, which uses completely native controls on the major platforms. Binary gems which install everything you need are available for Windows, OS X and Linux/GTK. 

Historically it has been less stable and complete than the other good toolkits, but the last year has seen a lot of development. Recent releases of wxruby2 have largely complete coverage of the API and people are using them for real work. There's a full ruby class ref and plenty of samples

I'd recommend using it with WxSugar, which provides a much more rubyish API layer on top of the library.

a