From: Daniel Lucraft <dan@...>
Date: 2007-07-10T15:37:34+09:00
Subject: Re: an alternative for VB using Ruby

Thilankka Marasinghe wrote:
> I want to know if theres an alternative to VB.net using ruby.. I mean in
> terms of dragging and dropping to build applications directly.. so that
> building apps would be faster in ruby than it already is.
> Might seem like a silly question but i do not know any better

There is the Glade GUI builder, which has a Ruby binding. Here is a 
sample video of how you can use it to rapidly develop GUI applications 
in Ruby:

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?RubyZilla

For this you need to install the GTK toolkit (which you have already if 
you are running Gnome) and the Ruby-Gnome2 bindings to GTK.

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Install+Guide

best,
Dan

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