From: Sharon Phillips <phillipsds@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T21:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + GUI?

> What would you all say is the best option for creating GUIs with Ruby?

Big question is: Which OS, and do you want to run it on any other?

I'm having fun currently building a framework around Swing using JRuby  
(yep, the world needs another swing framework :), but then I quite  
like Swing...
currently I can create a gui like this (based_on tells it to bind to  
corresponding fields a Personnel object.)

class PersonnelView < EntityView
   based_on  :personnel

   heading   "Edit Personnel"
   label     :fullname,
             :when_blank => '[unknown]',
             :desc => 'Full name'
   text      :firstname
   text      :surname
   drop_down :security_status,
             :select_from => ['None', 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Top  
Secret']
   check_box :confidentiality_agreement_signed,
             :desc => 'agreement signed?'
   drop_down :contract_role,
             :select_from => ['PSP', 'Contractor']
   memo      :comments,
             :height => 6
end

Cheers,
Dave