From: Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@...>
Date: 2007-05-15T20:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: WxSugar vs. Ruby-GNOME2

Hello,

There are Qt bindings for Qt3 and Qt4.

Look at these sites:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdebindings/qtruby/ (Qt3)
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/trunk/kdebindings/qtruby/ (Qt4)

There is a PDF-only booklet published by the Pragmatic Programmers:
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ctrubyqt/ (it's for Qt3, but  
it's essentially the same).

My advice: get the PragProg booklet and the official Qt-C++ book. You  
only need to know basic C++ to understand the C++ book and it  
translates straight to Ruby. There is a C++ tutorial at the end of the  
book.

A bit unrelated to this thread, there is something Simon Edwards (the  
author of the Python-Qt bindings) wrote about a few days ago and I  
would like to try: using QtJambi (Qt bindings for the Java VM) to  
program in a non-Java language. He has already done some tests with  
Java VM + Scala + Qt. It might be interesting to find out how far Java  
VM + JRuby + Qt could take us.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to the amount of work, I usually need 10 days to answer)


Quoting "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@hot.pl>:

> Pau Garcia i Quiles:
>
>> Quoting "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@hot.pl>:
>
>>> I?m an Ubuntu user, so GTK/GNOME is my primary platform; running
>>> the app under Windows would be a nice addition, but not the ultimate
>>> goal.
>
>>> Is my current vision that Ruby-GNOME2 would be a better choice [than
>>> wxSugar] in my case the right one? (More stable, more documentation,
>>> more controls, the possibility to develop in Glade.)
>
>>> Is running a Ruby-GNOME2 app under Windows a lot
>>> of hassle, compared to WxSugar + rubyscript2exe?
>
>> I hate to repeat myself, but: use QtRuby. It rules.
>
> Ok, call me lazy here, but is there a nice demonstration of QtRuby
> that?s would convince me to give it a try (especially that I?d have
> to install Qt, skin it so it?s bearable and kiss Glade good-bye)?
>
> For example, Ruby-GNOME2?s
> http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla
> does scream ?take me! take me!? in a *very* persuasive manner. :)
>
> -- Shot
> --
>> I've gone through over-stressed to physical exhaustion - what's next?
> Tuesday.                                   -- Simon Burr and Kyle Hearn
>