From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-07-16T16:49:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Technology solutions for Ruby? snacktime wrote: > On 7/15/07, Michael Reiland wrote: >> I'm contemplating writing an application in Ruby but in order to do so I >> have some requirements that I hope everyone can help me out with. >> >> This is for a primarily windows application, however I'd like to keep >> the door open for Mac/Linux. >> >> >> 1. GUI - Native Look and Feel. According to wxRuby the bindings aren't >> mature enough for production use. Does anyone have any experience with >> this and/or can you offer alternatives that provide a native look and >> feel (I >> > wxruby is the best that I'm aware of, and I wouldn't even think of > creating a production windows gui with it. > >> 2. Databases - contemplating using ActiveRecord, but I would like to use >> ODBC to support multiple types of DB's in a uniform way (if you know of >> alternatives to ODBC or ActiveRecord, please let me know). > > Not sure what you mean by uniform. Activerecord is pretty uniform > from the perspective of how you use it regardless of the database. > There is also ruby-dbi, similar to the perl dbi. > >> >> 3. Binary - Are there any utilities for compiling Ruby into a binary >> executable? > > No. > > > You might take a look at Jruby. > > Chris > > Yeah ... jRuby has a cross-platform GUI and all the database stuff. I don't particularly like the typical Java GUI look and feel, but that's just my personal taste.