From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T17:21:32+09:00
Subject: Re: SIMPLE! and INTUITIVE! GUI BUILDER for RUBY?

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On 5/8/07, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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.


Argh! Did you say Javascript??

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