From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-10-22T23:17:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Is Ruby For Me? Stephen Cox wrote: > i know what I'm about to post doesn't apply to you. however i think it > might give you an idea "what's to come with Ruby". > > On the Mac, we have RubyCocoa ( > http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/HomePage ) a bridge between the Ruby > and the Objective-C languages, allowing you to manipulate Objective-C > objects from Ruby, and vice-versa. It interfaces completly with xCode, > (apple's development environment IDE). Including Interface Builder (the > GUI builder, similiar to VS' GUI builder - dragging/dropping objects > onto windows and assigning attributes to each object). > > Using this tool, you can write complete cocoa applications using Ruby in > the xCode development environment. See the above link for examples of > projects that have done this. > > There's even a Ruby bridge to Applescript called rb-appscript. Allowing > you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications using ordinary Ruby > scripts. Some are even using this in place of Applesript. You can write > ruby scripts to control iTunes, or QuickTime, or Spotlight, etc, etc. > > In the next release of OSX (10.5) Apple is including an updated copy of > ruby and rails and a few gems to boot. But of course, you can easily > install what you want. > > I tell you this so you'd have an idea what is going on in Ruby on other > playforms. I am assuming the Windows geeks are following suit. I think > soon, you'll have more than enough Ruby "bridges" to various Windows > techs and IDE's. > > So hang in there. > > What I'd like to see is a real cross-platform graphics tool kit for > ruby. Most I've tried are seriouslly lacking. Maybe Jruby is the answer? Well, one of the goals of wxWindows is to have a native look-and-feel on all the platforms where it runs. Now I don't have a Mac or a Solaris box, but I have seen it in action on Windows and Linux. Another nice thing about wxWindows is that the Scintilla/Scite text editor is part of the tool set.