From: pete <peterbattaglia@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T23:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby + GUI?

On Nov 30, 5:02 am, Sharon Phillips <phillip...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > 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

Great!  Thanks everyone. All I really wanted was a good starting
place, it seems there's a lot of options out there and I'm pretty
limited on time to get this project done.

This project in particular will be on Windows (sorry), but I'm also a
Linux user and most of the development I do is in the Linux
environment.  I'll take alook at all of these and see what best fits
for my app.

Thanks again!