From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T08:11:01+09:00
Subject: Re: SIMPLE! and INTUITIVE! GUI BUILDER for RUBY?

On Sun, 6 May 2007, gcarcass wrote:

> Is there any, SIMPLE software that I can use to build GRAPHIC INTERFACES
> for Ruby scripts? a kind of VISUALbasic or REALbasic or even Xcode
> alike?

Ah yes.

And while I'm derailing you train of thought....

The teeniest bit of surgery will cut the command line head off an app
and place a CGI one on it.

Why install you app when you can clip it to your webserver an deliver
it to The World Instantly.

The browser is the GUI.

Please read "Magic Ink" before you get overwhelmed by the desire for
interactivity. It's highly overrated.

http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

Hokay.


So you really really want a GUI and you won't let me stand between
yourself and your sado-masochistic desire for inducing, in yourself
and your user, pain and complication.

Write a firefox extension.

In ruby.

HTML+XUL for the layout. CSS for the presentation Javascript for the
interactivity and Ruby the engine to do the work.


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